Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke
Every magazine I’ve read has given this book rave reviews…” This is a lively, sympathetic fictionalized account of the true adventures of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a poet, artist’s model and friend of Marcel Duchamp whose irrepressible life bordered on the fashionably sordid. Fleeing her home at age 19 for the liberation—and poverty—of Berlin circa 1904. Three husbands determine the direction of her life: the first, August, is an effete, hashish-smoking architect; the second, his best friend, Franz, is a charming, tortured poet and con man who brings Elsa to New York only to desert her; and the last is a German baron who gambles away his fortune and abandons her as well. Yet Elsa is an intrepid heroine who continually rises from her own ashes, muscling her way into artists’ parties with bon mots and conversation-stopping “self-apparel pieces.” Fantastic: don’t we all love self apparel pieces?
$16 http://www.amazon.com Publisher: William Morrow; (March 1, 2005)
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