The Late Night Muse

by Bette Pesetsky

A New York City poet diagnosed with a fatal disease looks back on her life--abandonment by her mother, her bizarre romantic entanglements, her involvement with a Kafkaesque group called the Cousins Club--organizing it for posterity

261 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1991

About the author

Bette Pesetsky is an American novelist and short story writer. She received her degrees at Washington University, St. Louis, and the University of Iowa, has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Iowa, California, and St Lawrence, and has been Writer-in-residence at the New College of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, since 2004.