{"product_id":"wild-girls-natalie-barney-and-romaine-brooks-9780297643869","title":"Wild Girls : Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eNatalie and Romaine met in London during World War I and their partnership lasted until Natalie died 52 years later. They were both American expatriates; unconventional  energetic  flamboyant and rich. Natalie was known as the wild girl of Cincinnatti. She had numerous affairs with other women: Rene Vivien who nailed shut the windows of her apartment  wrote about the loveliness of death  drank eau de cologne and died of anorexia aged 30; and Dolly Wilde niece of Oscar  who ran up terrible phone bills and died of a drugs overdose. She wrote books of aphorism  memoirs and poems and her Friday afternoon salons in the cobbled garden of her Parisian house were for introductions and culture. They were frequented by Gertrude Stein  Colette  Radclyffe Hall and Edith Sitwell. Romaine achieved fame in her own lifetime and after as an artist. She painted her lovers including Gabriele dAnnunzio with whom she had a terrible and tortured relationship  and the ballerina Ida Rubinstein. However her relationship with Natalie was constant and in their eventful years together they threw up a liberating spirit of culture  style and candour. Diana Souhami has written a fascinating portrait of these two enigmatic figures  as well as a moving portrait of a forgotten time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651855999029,"sku":"ByrdShop_029764386X","price":38.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780297643869.jpg?v=1781842342","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wild-girls-natalie-barney-and-romaine-brooks-9780297643869","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}