Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
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Using many never-before-seen papers and letters and unprecedented interviews with dancers, family, friends and lovers, Julie Kavanagh tells how the little boy who was born on a train in Siberia at the beginning of World War II grew up to become one of the greatest male ballet stars ever.
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‘A gripping account of an extraordinary life’ Daily Telegraph
Born on a train in Stalin’s Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet’s first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement – both on and off stage.
Nureyev’s achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov’s thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor’s wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia’s unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.
‘Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man’ Mail on Sunday
‘The definitive study of a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological grime, can truly be called a sacred monster’ Observer
‘Undoubtedly the definitive biography’ Sunday Telegraph
| Weight | 0.613 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.6 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | viii, 787 , 48 unnumbered of plates |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 792.8028092 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
