Dancer

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From the documented facts of real life, the acclaimed Irish writer Colum McCann has created an extraordinary work of fiction. This history of a life gets under the skin of its hero, into his head, under the skin of the people around him and into the truth of what it means to dance.

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‘Remarkable … nimble, lyrical and wispy’ Sunday Times‘An utterly riveting, frequently moving, and staggeringly well-written book’ Daily Mail‘Breathtaking’ Guardian________________________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.

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Weight 0.276 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.8 cm
Book_author

McCann, Colum

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Imprint

Bloomsbury

Cover

Paperback

Pages

374

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

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