Muse
Galassi, Jonathan2015
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Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York. Thanks to his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns well the ins and outs of the book world: how to work an agent over lunch and swim with the literary sharks at Frankfurt; 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 digital, 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 at last meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret - one that will change all of their lives forever.
Main title:
Muse / Jonathan Galassi.
Author:
Galassi, Jonathan, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2015.
Collation:
257 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780224102414 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3557.A387
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
BRN:
723455