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DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;\nWednesday\, May 23\, 7:00pm.\nThe Master's Muse read
 ing with Varley O'Connor.\nA Writers and the Process Series event hosted
  by Minter Krotzer. Varley O'Connor's fourth novel\, The Master's Muse\,
   is based on the life of George Balanchine's fifth wife\, a star  balle
 rina whose career was cut short when she contracted polio at age  twenty
 -six.. In 1956\, hours after performing with the New York City  Ballet\,
  Tanaquil Le Clercq fell gravely ill\, awaking from a feverous  sleep to
  find that she could no longer move her legs. Set against the  backdrop 
 of creative New York of the 1960s and 70s\, The Master's Muse  tells the
  remarkable true story of two artistic legends whose profound  love and 
 complicated relationship forever changed American cultural  history.\nVa
 rley O'Connor's first novel\, Like China\, described by the New York Tim
 es as "a first novel that soars\," was published by William Morrow in 19
 91. Her second novel\, A Company of Three\, about the world of theater a
 nd acting\, came out from Algonquin Books in 2003. Her third novel\, The
  Cure\,  was published by the Bellevue Literary Press in 2007. She has t
 aught  writing and literature at Irvine\, Hofstra University\, Brooklyn 
 College\,  Marymount Manhattan College\, the North Carolina Writers' Net
 work\, and  thrice for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers' Summer Con
 ference.
URL:http://chestnuthill.patch.com/events/big-blue-marble-the-masters-muse
 -reading-with-varley-oconnor
SUMMARY:Big Blue Marble: The Master's Muse reading with Varley O'Connor
LOCATION:Big Blue Marble Bookstore: 551 Carpenter Ln\, Philadelphia\, PA
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