This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer. Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780753817049
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89009696
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dancer: Stunning, Bestselling Novel Based on the Real Life of Rudolf Nureyev
Author
Colum Mccann
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Dance
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
196mm
Item Width
133mm
Item Weight
240g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Colum Mccann
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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