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Vapnyar, Lara, 1971-
Subjects
Russian Americans -- Fiction.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Inspiration -- Fiction.
Novelists -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Vapnyar, Lara, 1971-
Russian Americans -- Fiction.
Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
Inspiration -- Fiction.
Novelists -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Memoirs of a muse / Lara Vapnyar.
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Vapnyar, Lara, 1971-
Pantheon Books, c2006.
Call #:
FICTION
VAP
Subjects
Russian Americans --
Fiction
.
Fiction
-- Authorship --
Fiction
.
Women immigrants --
Fiction
.
Inspiration --
Fiction
.
Novelists --
Fiction
.
New York (N.Y.) --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780375422966
037542296X
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Lara Vapnyar, author of the prizewinning story collection There Are Jews in My House, brings us a poignant and comic first novel about a delightfully sincere modern-day muse. We meet Tanya as a typical Russian girl, living with her bookish professor mother in a drab Soviet apartment. As a teenager, Tanya becomes obsessed with Dostoevsky and settles on her life’s calling: she will be the companion to a great writer. Her memoirs tell of her immigration to New York after college, the stifling expectations of her Brighton Beach cousins, and the crucial moment in a bookshop on the Upper West Side, where Tanya attends a reading by Mark Schneider, a Significant New York Novelist. Tanya soon moves in with Mark, ready to dazzle in bed, to serve and inspire . . . if only he would spend a little more time writing and a little less time at the gym, the shrink, and the literary soirees where she feels hopelessly unglamorous and out of place. But as she gradually learns to read English—struggling to better understand Mark’s work and her true role as Muse—Tanya also learns more than she expected about the destiny she has imagined for herself. Animated by Vapnyar’s beguiling grace and vividness—with a narrative richness reflecting the great tradition of Russian realism to which she is a natural heir—Memoirs of a Muse is an altogether wonderful novel. It is a lively meditation on female capabilities and happiness, on the mysteries of artistic inspiration (and the absurdities of artistic life), and, perhaps most movingly, on the pain and wonder of the immigrant experience in New York City."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Humorous
fiction
.
Bildungsromans.
Love stories.
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