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008			070823s2006 nyu 000 1 eng
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082	0	0	_aFIC VAP
100	1		_aVapnyar, Lara, 1971-
245	1	0	_aMemoirs of a muse _c/ Lara Vapnyar
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Pantheon Books _c, 2006.
300			_a212 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_a"Lara Vapnyar 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." "Memoirs of a Muse 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650			_aRussian Americans _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFiction _x-Authorship
650			_aWomen immigrants _v--Fiction
650			_aNovelists _v--Fiction
651		4	_aTme travel _x-Fiction
655		7	_aHumorous fiction
655		7	_aLove stories
942			_cMO
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