Dancer
a novel
by Colum McCann
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A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired millions, an artist whose name stood for genius, sex, and excess--the magnificence of Rudolf Nureyev's life and work are known, but in this novel McCann reinvents this erotically charged figure, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection, through the light he cast on those who knew him. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of Stalingrad to the wild abandon of New York in the eighties, McCann tells the story through a chorus of voices: there is Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set. McCann evokes the distinct consciousness of the man and the glittering reflection of the myth.--From publisher description.
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Ballet dancers, Male dancers, Fiction, Romans, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-)Places
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Dancer: A Novel
April 2004, The Audio Partners
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in English
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Dancer: A Novel
April 2004, The Audio Partners
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in English
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Dancer: A Novel
2003, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Paperback
in English
0297829440 9780297829447
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