Muse

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Paperback
2016
$12.16

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. 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 happens to be Purcell & Stern'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.

Synopsis

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. 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 happens to be Purcell & Stern'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.

$12.16

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 14 Jul 2016
ISBN 10: 1784701106
ISBN 13: 9781784701109
Book Overview: The story of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of an iconic female poet

Media Reviews

Stylish * Observer *
Entertaining * New Yorker *
Entertaining, keenly observed, incisive * New York Times *
Compelling... Galassi propels his readers forward on a thought-provoking, often hilarious, bittersweet ride... A bravura first novel * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Accomplished, entertaining, affecting * New York Journal of Books *

Author Bio

Jonathan Galassi is the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as acclaimed translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry editor of the Paris Review, he also writes for the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and other publications.