Memoirs Of A Muse

Tanya Is A Typical Teenager Living With Her Bookish Professor Mother In A Cramped Soviet Apartment. She Is Obsessed With Dostoyevksy, And Noticing That He Always Portrays His Mistress And Muse In His Novels – never His Wife – she Determines To Become A Companion To A Great Writer. Her Opportunity Comes When, As A College Graduate Newly Emigrated To America, She Attends A Manhattan Bookstore Reading By Mark Schneider, A Significant New York Novelist. Tanya Quickly Moves In With Mark, Ready To Dazzle In Bed, To Serve And Inspire... If Only He Would Spend A Little More Time Writing. But As She Struggles To Better Understand Her Role As Muse, Tanya Also Learns More Than She Expected About The Destiny She Has Imagined For Herself. A Touching And Very Funny Novel In The Great Tradition Of Russian Realism, Memoirs Of A Muse Is Also A Lively Meditation On The Mysteries And Absurdities Of Artistic Inspiration.