An excerpt of Virtuoso was published in Dyke_on Magazine Issue 0, thank you to Annabel Fernandes and the Dyke_on team.
Unending gratitude to my editor, Nick Sheerin, who gave me compassion and freedom, and to the whole Serpent’s Tail team, dear reader, I cannot emphasise enough how much comradery goes into every book, thank you Hannah Westland, Hannah Ross, Pete Dyer, Patrick Taylor, Sarah Chatwin.
To Jane Finigan, my agent, my advocate, my sidekick, thank you.
Lastly, a kindred bow to all those who subvert with a big heart, together, incognito, our cosmic song, our lyrical transgressions.
About the Author
Yelena Moskovich was born in the former USSR and emigrated to Wisconsin with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991. She studied theatre at Emerson College, Boston, and in France at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre and Université Paris 8. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France and Sweden. She has also written for New Statesman, Paris Review and 3:AM Magazine, and in French for Mixt(e) Magazine, won the 2017 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize and was a curator and exhibiting artist for the 108 Los Angeles Queer Biennial. Her first novel, The Natashas was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2016. She lives in Paris.
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First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Serpent’s Tail,
an imprint of Profile Books Ltd
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Copyright © 2019 by Yelena Moskovich
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
Cover image © Marianne Katser
Cover design: Peter Dyer
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, dead or alive, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
A CIP record for this book can be obtained from the British Library
ISBN: 9781788160254
eISBN: 9781782834342