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All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process.

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Richly drawn ... Prose approaches the artist-muse relationship with respect and wonder. --Gotham Magazine Packed with fascinating details. --Columbus Dispatch Prose taps into the power of nine in this inspired book. --Art News A wonderful combination of argument and literary portraiture. --Wall Street Journal With elegance, eloquence and majesty, Prose has give us a glimpse of the tangled webs of art and Eros. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution 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 Smooth smart and altogether engaging. --Atlanta Journal Constitution A remarkable book...piquant, intelligent, provocative--and sometimes haunting. --Minneapolis Star Tribune Lively and compassionate --Entertainment Weekly Rollicking ... Almost too much fun to read. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Prose has done a great service in her just reconsideration of the rather strange, complicated role of the muse. --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Francine Prose humanizes nine women who, in some cases, have been idealized beyond recognition. Hurrah for real women. --San Francisco Chronicle Refreshing ... a wonderful work of revisionist biography. --Kirkus Reviews Exceptionally well researched ... an elegant study. --Book Forum Juicy reading .... a thoroughly researched, highly opinionated series of fascinating double biographies. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Entertaining ... Prose's indignation, intelligence, scorching wit and critical insight have full play. --Washington Post Book World Prose make a remarkable case for the exceptionality of these women in their own right. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Smooth smart and altogether engaging. --Atlanta Journal Constitution

Prose make a remarkable case for the exceptionality of these women in their own right. -- Publishers Weekly (starred 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 Rollicking ... Almost too much fun to read. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Prose has done a great service in her just reconsideration of the rather strange, complicated role of the muse. --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Refreshing ... a wonderful work of revisionist biography. --Kirkus Reviews Juicy reading .... a thoroughly researched, highly opinionated series of fascinating double biographies. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Entertaining ... Prose's indignation, intelligence, scorching wit and critical insight have full play. --Washington Post Book World Prose taps into the power of nine in this inspired book. --Art News A wonderful combination of argument and literary portraiture. --Wall Street Journal Francine Prose humanizes nine women who, in some cases, have been idealized beyond recognition. Hurrah for real women. --San Francisco Chronicle Exceptionally well researched ... an elegant study. --Book Forum With elegance, eloquence and majesty, Prose has give us a glimpse of the tangled webs of art and Eros. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution Prose make a remarkable case for the exceptionality of these women in their own right. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, most recently, the highly acclaimed novel, MISTER MONKEY, and the New York Times bestselling novel, LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB, PARIS 1932. Her novel A CHANGED MAN won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and BLUE ANGEL was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised ANNE FRANK: THE BOOK, THE LIFE, THE AFTERLIFE, and the New York Times bestseller READING LIKE A WRITER, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Francine 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. She lives in New York City.

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