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Soon after Peter Sargeant assumes the public relations duties of a ballet company his job becomes complicated by anti-Communist pickets and the onstage murder of the leading ballerina in this inside look at the not-sowonderful world of ballet

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Classic. . . . The forerunner of the mod-and-sex mystery. . . Presented with perception and verisimilitude. Dorothy B. Hughes, Los Angeles Times
The case of the missing author is over. Gore Vidal has emerged from behind the facade of Edgar Box. The New Republic
Terse and lively. . . . Balletomanes will relish the book. The New York Times"

"Classic. . . . The forerunner of the mod-and-sex mystery. . . Presented with perception and verisimilitude." --Dorothy B. Hughes, Los Angeles Times

"The case of the missing author is over. Gore Vidal has emerged from behind the facade of Edgar Box." --The New Republic

"Terse and lively. . . . Balletomanes will relish the book." --The New York Times
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Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-three novels, five plays, two memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays. His United States: Essays, 1952-1992 received the National Book Award.

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  • PublisherRandom House Inc
  • Publication date1979
  • ISBN 10 0394740548
  • ISBN 13 9780394740546
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