The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired - Hardcover

Prose, Francine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060196726 ISBN 13: 9780060196721

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2002

Synopsis

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired

About this title

Review:

"A supple work of cultural history."--Time magazine

"Stylish writing ... a clear-eyed view .. cherry-picked examples."--USA Today

"Sad, glamorous and entirely riveting."--Newsweek

"Richly drawn ... Prose approaches the artist-muse relationship with respect and wonder."--Gotham Magazine

"Smooth smart and altogether engaging."--Atlanta Journal Constitution

"A remarkable book...piquant, intelligent, provocative--and sometimes haunting."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Packed with fascinating details."--Columbus Dispatch

"Lively and compassionate"--Entertainment Weekly

"Prose taps into the power of nine in this inspired book."--Art News

"Rollicking ... Almost too much fun to read."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

About the Author:

Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060196726
• ISBN 13: 9780060196721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320