![]() ![]() So that’s what the trouble is.’”) I assumed this new book would be a continuation of the old, would be more Edie. Still, I thought, ‘Well, you filthy old creep. “He put his arms around me and his head on my neck and he said, ‘Don’t you think I understand how all these men feel about you? After all, I’m a man, too.’ I don’t know if he even realized that he was making a pass at me. ![]() She would, however, tell of a night that Francis spent castigating her for getting engaged to a young man he deemed unsuitable, only to come by her room later. (Alice wouldn’t corroborate Edie’s outrageous-sounding sphinx claim. ![]() Edie told a Factory friend that he’d forced her and her sister Susanna to “sit in a sphinxlike position with bared breasts on the top of columns flanking the entrance to driveway.”) Sedgwick with her father, Francis, on the family’s California ranch.Īlice was Stein’s mole, Stein’s inside source on the Sedgwick family. (Francis-dashing, savage, and preposterously handsome-is a monster out of the most lurid WASP-gothic fantasy. And I recalled Alice vividly from it, though Stein didn’t identify Alice as Alice, identified Alice as “Saucie,” “Saucie” being short for “sausage,” the cruel nickname given to her by her and Edie’s father, Francis Minturn Sedgwick. I know it inside and out, backwards and forwards. ![]() A bit of context: Edie, the 1982 oral history by Jean Stein with an assist from George Plimpton, is a book that I believe contains the key that opens the door to 20th-century American pop culture. ![]()
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