The National Book AwardтАУwinning authorтАЩs biographical novel of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev: тАЬExuberant and exhilarating . . . a brilliant leap of imaginationтАЭ (San Francisco Chronicle).
In Dancer, Colum McCann tells the ballet iconтАЩs story through the myriad voices of those who knew him. There is Anna Vasileva, RudiтАЩs first ballet teacher, who rescues her prot├йg├й from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set.
Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the тАШ80s, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn, and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection.
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