Still, the characters are well drawn, and the stories taken individually are engaging.

Even when the characters appear in one another’s chapters, readers may not be convinced that they truly belong to the same community. Steinke capably delineates her characters’ rather constricted lives, but the different parts of story never coalesce. She is the author of three novels: The Fires (1999), Holy Skirts (2005), and Friendswood (2014). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the. These and other characters move through their lives with a combination of determination and bewilderment. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Steinke grew up in Friendswood, Texas. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 0.99. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages, hardcover with dust. For Hal, a born-again Christian real estate agent, a big score always seems just out of reach. Buy Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art by Rene Steinke online at Alibris.

The sensitive Dex, a classmate of Willa’s and a trainer for the high school football team, witnesses her assault. Teenage Willa unwisely goes to a party at which she is the only girl and is gang-raped. Lee is a bereaved mother whose daughter died of a blood disease that she’s convinced was caused by the toxic waste. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Steinke’s latest (after Holy Skirts) comprises several story lines following residents of the titular small town, a Texas community adjoining a toxic waste dump. From the talented author of 'The Fires' comes a fascinating novel of art, passion, modernity, and war set in the early years of the 20th century that provides a portrait of the real-life Baroness Elsa of Greenwich Village. With exceptional perception and deft artistry, Steinke (Holy Skirts, 2005) traces a matrix of poisonous acts in this magnetizing and sensitive tale of hidden dangers, the tyranny of the status quo, trust betrayed, crimes personal and planetary, and individuals transformed. and transforming herself into a living, breathing work of art. 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. 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. No 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.

Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke