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Author:

Toll, Martha Anne, author.

Title:

Three muses / Martha Anne Toll.

Publisher:

Regal House Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

246 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Psychiatrists--Fiction.
Ballet dancers--Fiction.
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Europe--Fiction.
Ballet dancers.
Holocaust survivors.
Identity (Psychology)
Psychiatrists.
Europe.
New York (State)--New York.
1939-1945
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

"Petrichor Prize Finely Crafted Fiction"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past. Katya Symanova climbs the arduous path to Prima Ballerina of the New York State Ballet, becoming enmeshed in an abusive relationship with her choreographer, who makes Katya a star but controls her life. When John receives a ticket to attend a ballet featuring Katya Symanova, a spell is cast. As John and Katya follow circuitous paths to one another, fear and promise rise in equal measure.

ISBN:

164603256X
9781646032563

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

SZPC124 -- Kothe Memorial Library (Parkersburg)

HIPC765 -- Pocahontas Public Library (Pocahontas)