num_pages: 384
description: National Book Award FinalistNo one in 1917 New York had ever encountered a woman like the Bar-oness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven -- poet, artist, proto-punk rocker, sexual libertine, fashion avatar, and unrepentant troublemaker. When she wasn't stalking the streets of Greenwich Village wearing a brassiere made from tomato cans, she was enthusiastically declaiming her poems to sailors in beer halls or posing nude for Man Ray or Marcel Duchamp. In an era of brutal war, technological innovation, and cataclysmic change, the Baroness had resolved to create her own destiny -- taking the center of the Dadaist circle, breaking every bond of female propriety . . . and transforming herself into a living, breathing work of art.
language: English
title: Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art
titlecomplete: Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art
genres: Art, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Novels, Womens, Fiction
ratings_count: 425
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial