THE UNFINISHED LIFE OF ADDISON STONE by Adele Griffin Book Trailer from Victoria Bata on Vimeo. With photo inserts and previously unpublished supplemental material.' 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.

It's clear very, very early on that Addison has something like schizophrenia I'm not sure what is supposed to be surprising about the (very well-written, interesting) story or why it's classified as a mystery.Find out more about this book and author: Her friends and family and fans all narrate what led up to her death, with various and interesting levels of unreliability. Addison Stone, and young and exceptionally promising artist, has died.

It was a lot of fun.still keep thinking Addison really did exist:) more life from her parents to her best friend and her art teachers who were surrogate parents to her. Adele Griffen does an amazing job capturing the voices of all the people in Addison's.

Filled with pictures of her 'art'and photographs of her with 'friends'. Questions about whether it was an accident or if there had been foul play surround the tragedy. It is written as though the author conducted a series of interviews regarding the untimely death of a young artist named Addison Stone who fell to her death while working on a billboard art piece. But about a third of the way in I started to feel like these people couldn't be real and must be characters and that's when I looked at the beginning of the book and saw 'this is a work of fiction'.

Of course, I initially believed this to be a true story and was blown away by the talent and torment of Addison.

The unfinished life of addison stone by adele griffin