Description

As It Turns Out is a family story Alice Sedgwick Wohl is writing to her brother Bobby who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965 just before their sister Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol After unexpectedly coming across Edies image in a clip from Warhols film Outer and Inner Space Wohl was moved to put her inner dialogue with Bobby on the page in an attempt to reconstruct Edies life and figure out what made Edie and Andy such iconic figures in American culture What was it about Andy that enabled him to anticipate so much of contemporary culture Why did Edie draw attention wherever she went Who exactly was she who fascinated Warhol and captured the imagination of a generation

Wohl tells the story as only a sister could from their childhood on a California ranch and the beginnings of Edies lifelong troubles in the world of their parents to her life and relationship with Warhol within the silver walls of the Factory in the fashionable arenas of New York and as projected in the various critically acclaimed films he made with her As Wohl seeks to understand the conjunction of Edie and Andy she writes with a keen critical eye and careful reflection about their enduring impact As It Turns Out is a meditation addressed to her brother about their sister about the girl behind the magnetic image and about the culture she and Warhol introduced