Muse
A Novels, Fiction, Writing book. One sunny moment, moving inexorably toward sepia. Jonathan Galassi, Muse //
Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices belie the treasures of its list. Thanks to his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns the vagaries of the book world: how to work an agent over lunch and swim with the literary sharks at Frankfurt book fair; how to marry flattery with criticism when combing over the manuscripts of brilliant, volatile authors. But though things can be shaky in the age of conglomerates and ebooks, Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America‘s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher – also her cousin and erstwhile lover – happens to be Homer's biggest rival.When Paul finally meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret – one that will change all of their lives forever. Enriched...
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- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780224102414 / 224102419
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Being in love is arguably the least productive of human states. Jonathan Galassi, Muse // One sunny moment, moving inexorably toward sepia. Jonathan Galassi, Muse // For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page. Jonathan Galassi, Muse //
I received a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.This novel seemed to me to be almost two books the first 65%, which didnt work for me in the slightest bit, and the last 35%, which worked incredibly well.For the first 65%, I felt as if I was Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. I was given access to a world... Every poet (or every person with a poet's soul) who has even a hint of nostalgia for a poetry world that is almost gone by should read Jonathan Galassi's MUSE, a roman a clef novel about a young man in the publishing world and a poet of such fantastic renown she'd be Edna St. Vincent Millay (who read to audiences of thousands) AND Elizabeth... Fast read, almost lyrical prose. I felt like an outsider to a club for book lovers that I desperately wanted to belong to. Especially after the introduction. Pick me pick me!!! Although I never quite got inside as I had hoped I would with continued reading, I did feel the emotion that the author feels for books, poetry, and the fictionalized...
