David Weisman (1942–2019)
Forfatter af Edie: Girl on Fire
Om forfatteren
Image credit: David Weisman
Værker af David Weisman
Ciao! Manhattan — Instruktør — 3 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1942-03-11
- Dødsdag
- 2019-10-09
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Lister
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 2
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 77
- Popularitet
- #231,246
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 3
- ISBN
- 2
I was overwhelmed with melancholy reading some of the quotes. Pondering youth wasted vs youth lost. Why is it that so many who seem to have it all laid before them, beauty, talent, money, security and a fairly bright future somehow screw it up, not able to bear the world or the pain inside their heads. There's a very moving quote which I should have written down because I can't find it just now) about her being like a moth, a beautiful moth. (But it only implied the flame part) - corny & trite? yes but when I read it I just cried like a baby. Edie said she stepped off the edge and there was no one there. Even though she was surrounded by people, fame and excitement of New York, the Factory crowd & recently married - somehow it didn't calm her inner beasts and I can relate to that.. It makes you wonder if she'd not died what her future would have been if she'd just stepped off but outta that scene to an ordinary married life. You know that might have killed her anyway. Living that high and that bright then coming down to earth has killed many - scorched their souls and dried up the life slower. Painful to watch, painful to live.
"I tried to bake a sweet potato and the oven exploded"- Edie
Patti Smith said Edie was the real heroine of Blonde on Blonde. Now that is an interesting thought.
For fuller biography I also recommend Edie: An American Biography
by Jean Stein, George Plimpton
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1553228.Edie… (mere)