Dancer
Colum McCann
Sold by Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 9 October 2009
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket2003. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo. Good copy. Second Impression. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Divided into four loosely chronological sections, the novel spans the length of Nureyev's dancing career, opening in Stalin's war-ravaged Russia, where the young Rudolf earned sugar lumps for entertaining wounded soldiers, and closing with his last sickly, performance and a final, fleeting, visit home. Exile and displacement are really the chief themes of the book and McCann's Nureyev is a man scarred and agitated by the decision to abandon his homeland. "I dance", he notes at one point, "so much--too much--in order not to think of home". McCann seems to imply, however, that it is his disapproving father, who never saw him dance, who fuelled his relentless ambition. Forays into cod-Freudian psychoanalysis aside, this gripping reinvention of Nureyev, rich in period detail and characterisation, is well conceived, marvellously wrought and eminently readable. --Travis Elborough
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