Did I forget to add dead? Yeah, she's also very dead. Addison Stone is a very young, complicated, mentally unstable genius of an Artist. With photo inserts and previously unpublished supplemental material."Īre you an art freak? This might be the perfect oddball book for you then. By means of more than one hundred interviews with those who knew her best-including close friends, family, teachers, mentors, art dealers, boyfriends, and critics-I have retraced the tumultuous path of Addison's life, with research that sheds new evidence on what really happened the night of July 28, 2013. Her trademark subversive street art and her violent drowning left her fans and critics craving to know more about this brilliant wild-child who shone so bright and was gone too soon. In presenting herself as interviewer and curator of memories, Adele paints the portrait of a tragic young celebrity who allegedly committed suicide-presented in a series of brief first-person recollections-that ultimately results in the solving of a murder.Īdele's words: "From the moment she burst into the downtown art scene, seventeen-year-old Addison Stone was someone to watch. Two-time National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin offers an ingenious fictional take on the "oral history" celebrity bio that defined a bestselling genre: Edie, American Girl by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. "Headline from Daily News, Monday July 29th: ADDISON STONE, WELL-KNOWN ARTIST, DIES AT 18."
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