Title: A-musing, but alas, not true.
Review: Though Francine Prose's treatments of the nine women she has selected to call 'muses' make great reading, she has, in at least one case, preferenced a 'good story' over truth, scrambled some facts, misstated others, and based much of her information on the biased projections of previous biographers. If this is true for one, it casts doubts over the accuracy of her information for all. Prose is a gifted writer, yet, sadly, she negates the woman each time she choses to use the provocative, juicy, handed-down opinions of those previously determined to 'protect' the artist from the supposed femme fatale. Keeping these women safely tucked away as 'muses,' is a step backwards -- a lost opportunity to truly do justice to the separate lives and achievements of these remarkable women.
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