Skirts

By Mimi Albert

In New York in 1961 a brilliant young college student gets her won apartment and tries a life of sex, drugs and jazz, tortured by one of the reigning gods of the emerging counterculture. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880909138
• ISBN13: 9781880909133
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Baskerville Pub
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

I read Skirts several years ago and loved it. I hope this gifted writer releases a new book soon.

The Beat Generation in the 60s in Greenwich Village

This award-winning book deserves far more recognition than it's getting. Skirts is the mesmerizing story of three young women on their own in Greenwich Village, seeking excitement among the Beat Generation. Mimi Albert (The Second Story Man) writes with power of the seduced and the seducer with Zalman, the handsome son of a rabbi, urging `turning on' to life (which includes drugs). He is both alluring and scary, esp as he lures the innocent Helene deeper into a world of exotics she could not previously have imagined.I believe it's difficult for today's female readers (the young ones, anyway) to imagine the strictures under which women of the 50s and early 60s were expected to live - and it is against that background that Helene, Ruth, and Victoria are operating. Albert's eloquent language and dramatic narrative help make that background come alive with even more contrast to what the women discover about the world and themselves in the rarified air of Greenwich Village.

Atmospheric and earthy. Held my interest start to finish.

I enjoyed entering the world of "Skirts" and read the book eagerly. It had no competition for my attention while I was reading it. I did not previously have any particular affinity for either New York or the Sixties beat scene, but Mimi Albert made them both so real for me I didn't think of categories but just about the lives of the young women I was reading about. Her writing was very grounded in time and place and her scenes wonderfully visualized. The book was absolutely swarming with mood and yet I never lost my bearings. Albert was always in control of her story and kept with with her start to finish.