New Releases by George Plimpton

When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol''s superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, tragic and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the American sixties. Photographs.

Material pertaining to a special issue of Esquire in 1983 celebrating the magazine''s fiftieth anniversary, for which the editors commissioned fifty essays by leading American authors on "The Fifty Who Made a Difference," notable Americans active in the years since Esquire''s founding in 1933. Notes, correspondence, and drafts of essays from 21 of the fifty authors (or their representatives), in communication with Lee Eisenberg and Rust Hills (Esquire literary editor). Some miscellaneous material related to other issues, particularly from Truman Capote and Irwin Shaw, dates from as early as 1976 and as late as 1984.

Depicts in text and illustrations the fanciful adventures of rabbits with umbrellas.