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Original Title: Dancer
ISBN: 0312423187 (ISBN13: 9780312423186)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Saint Petersburg(Russian Federation) Paris(France) Ufa(Russian Federation)
Literary Awards: Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year (2004)
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Dancer Paperback | Pages: 336 pages
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Title:Dancer
Author:Colum McCann
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 336 pages
Published:February 1st 2004 by Picador (first published January 6th 2003)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Russia. European Literature. Irish Literature

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Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist Colum McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé 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 eighties, 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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Very interesting and of course great writing from Colum McCann.

"Dancer"......by Colum McCann is a breathtaking tribute the Russian Ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev...... I mean BREATHTAKING!!!!!This book is a novel, yet Colum McCann took his inspiration from biographical facts from Rudolf's life. WOW.... and what a story!!! Captivating....spanning over four decades. The lyrically powerful prose is seductive....intimate....bigger than life...."dazzling"!!!!Right from the start when 'Rudik' was a child in the Soviet Union ( 1941-1956)...we are transported back

Beautiful!!! That is the word which best describes this biographical novel of Rudi Nureyev the great Russian ballet dancer who began life as a boy in communist Russia to later defect and live a glamorous life of opulence around the world. Rudi's story is told from the point of view of those nearest and dearest to him and while at times he seems almost completely unsympathetic based on his compulsive and diva like behaviors, the author strives to find his most human qualities and paints a

I absolutely loved this book. He had me from the initial description of the Russian front and the building of the baths for the soldiers all the way through mid-70s gay life in NYC, a dancer's physical decline, and the end of several character's lives. I think McCann is an exquisite writer, and there were so many sentences that stopped me cold while I read the book, I had to re-read them, and then read them out loud to my companions.I knew almost nothing of Nureyev when I started this book. I

Very interesting and of course great writing from Colum McCann.

At any one time we all have at least one dance in us. For Nureyev dance was all. His body, from childhood, was his instrument of expression. As he learned what his body could do he built a picture of his world. His dance became the mother of all tongues, cutting across language barriers and speaking to individuals on a primal emotional level. Colum McCann writes of Nureyevs life using vivid descriptions. His emotional delivery adds weight to his words. He speaks the truth with a twist of fiction