Immortal muse
By: Stephen Leigh
Series: DAW book collectors -- no. 1646; DAW book collectors -- no. 1646.
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780756409562
Subjects: Immortality; Elixirs; Time travel; Fiction
Description: Immortal Muse is a tale that takes the reader on a fascinating journey from Paris of the late 1300s with the alchemists Perenelle and Nicolas Flamel, to contemporary New York City.  Along the way, there are interludes with Bernini in Rome in 1635; with Vivaldi in Venice of 1737; with Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier and Robespierre in the Paris of the French Revolution; with William Blake and John Polidori in 1814; with Gustav Klimt in fin de siècle Vienna; with Charlotte Salomon in WWII France.  And in modern-day New York, a complicated dance of love and violence finally brings a resolution to the centuries-old deadly feud.