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Muse, June 2015
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Knopf
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 0385353340
EAN: 9780385353342
Kindle: B00NDTS5ES
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Fiction
From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first
novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long
rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic,
alluring writer who has obsessed them both.
Paul
Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the
last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby
offices on Union Square belie the treasures on its list.
Working with his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul
learns the ins and outs of the book trade—how to work an
agent over lunch; how to swim with the literary sharks at
the Frankfurt Book Fair; and, most important, how to nurse
the fragile egos of the dazzling, volatile authors he
adores.
But Paul’s deepest admiration has always
been reserved for one writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose
audacious verse and notorious private life have shaped
America’s contemporary literary landscape, and whose
longtime publisher—also her cousin and erstwhile
lover—happens to be Homer’s biggest rival. And when Paul at
last has the chance to meet Ida at her Venetian palazzo, she
entrusts him with her greatest secret—one that will change
all of their lives forever.
Studded with juicy
details only a quintessential insider could know, written
with both satiric verve and openhearted
nostalgia, Muse is a brilliant, haunting
book about the beguiling interplay between life and art, and
the eternal romance of literature.
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