Dancer
From the New York Times-Bestselling, National Book Award-Winning, Booker Prize-Longlisted Author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2020
400 pages
978-1-5266-1735-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Spins with virtuosic, charismatic brilliance around a core of wilful mystery' Guardian
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Russia in the 1940s. A small boy practises spinning on his mother's wooden floors, entranced by what he can make his body do. His momentum will propel him far from home; we watch him turn, through the lives of his teachers, his partners on and off stage, through the eyes of doormen and shoemakers, hustlers and nurses, through the rehearsal rooms of Moscow to Parisian opera houses to the streets of New York - ablaze as a comet, his light hot enough to catch and burn.
Masterfully blending fact and fiction to give an alternative biography of Rudolph Nureyev's life, Dancer is not only the story of one of the most important artists in history - but a biography of the twentieth century itself.
'McCann's agile, muscular prose creates its own energy and rhythm ... He has taken one of the most charismatic characters of the twentieth century and created a bold contemporary novel' Daily Telegraph
'Remarkable ... Does full justice to the tragic story of a dancer who was the glory of his generation' Sunday Times
'Here is an astonishing book. Colum McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative' Spectator
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Russia in the 1940s. A small boy practises spinning on his mother's wooden floors, entranced by what he can make his body do. His momentum will propel him far from home; we watch him turn, through the lives of his teachers, his partners on and off stage, through the eyes of doormen and shoemakers, hustlers and nurses, through the rehearsal rooms of Moscow to Parisian opera houses to the streets of New York - ablaze as a comet, his light hot enough to catch and burn.
Masterfully blending fact and fiction to give an alternative biography of Rudolph Nureyev's life, Dancer is not only the story of one of the most important artists in history - but a biography of the twentieth century itself.
'McCann's agile, muscular prose creates its own energy and rhythm ... He has taken one of the most charismatic characters of the twentieth century and created a bold contemporary novel' Daily Telegraph
'Remarkable ... Does full justice to the tragic story of a dancer who was the glory of his generation' Sunday Times
'Here is an astonishing book. Colum McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative' Spectator
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
2,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-1735-4 (9781526617354)
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Colum McCann
Dancer
From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
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02/2026
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Colum McCann
Dancer
From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
Book
09/2020
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€14.00
Available immediately
Person
Colum McCann's seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the world's most prestigious literary awards and honours, including the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin in 2009. His novel TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, and his most recent novel, Apeirogon, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is an international bestseller on four continents. colummccann.com
Content
- Cover
- By Colum Mccann
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Book One
- 1 Soviet Union 1941-1956
- 2 Leningrad, ufa, Moscow 1956-1961
- 3 London 1961
- 4 Ufa, Leningrad 1961-1964
- Book Two 1961-1971
- 1
- 2
- Book Three
- 1 New York 1975
- 2 Leningrad 1975-76
- 3 Paris, London, Caracas 1980s
- 4 London, Brighton 1991
- Book Four
- Russia 1987
- Sale: The Rudolf Nureyev Collection, January and November, 1995, New York and London
- Acknowledgments
- Also available by Colum McCann
- Copyright Page
