| Muse Contributor(s): Galassi, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804172498 ISBN-13: 9780804172493 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these pages, Jonathan Galassi--the longtime publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux--gives us an extraordinarily sensitive, satirically sharp novel set in the world of books that he knows so well. At the center is Paul Dukach, editor-in-chief and heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of New York's last great independent publishing houses. But despite all his success, Paul remains obsessed with the writer who got away: the poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and work have made her a celebrity--and who is published by Stern's biggest rival. When Paul at last meets Ida at her Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret--one that will change all their lives. Filled with juicy details only a quintessential insider could know, Muse is a salty valentine to the people who write, sell, and, above all, read the books that shape our lives. |