Before Joan Brady became a writer she was a dancer. At nineteen she was poised at the pinnacle of every dancer's dream - admission to an internationally acclaimed ballet company. But at the crucial moment she lost her confidence and forfeited what she believed was her chance of stardom. Dance had taught her discipline, technique and elegance.
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Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR006691916
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Da: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, Francia
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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Second Edition. Hardcover with lightly bumped foot of spine and upper leading corner. Scuffed dust jacket with lightly creased upper edge and some superficial scores. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T. Used. Codice articolo 284153
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Da: Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, Regno Unito
Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Fine first printing of the UK edition. The book was originally publsihed in the USA as The Unmaking of a Dancer and this issue is a revised edition of that text. An as new, unread copy without flaws. Codice articolo 003278
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Da: John Stoodley, Weymouth, Dorset, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, light foxing to ffep, otherwise VG in VG dustjacket. Codice articolo 011087
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Da: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. All writers'pasts are prologues to publication, but few are so dramatic as this unconventional life, which began not in literature but in the cloistered world of professional ballet. Joan Brady grew up in California, the daughter of a black-listed economics professor and his strong-willed, brilliant, powerfully jealous and ultimately vengeful wife. Dancing lessons took Joan away from the tensions between these two, and she turned out to be extremely gifted. By the time she was twenty, she was dancing with the most important ballet company in the Western world, George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, then at the height of its artistic powers. At the crucial moment, Joan lost her confidence and so her chance of stardom. Dance had taught her discipline, technique, elegance and courage. Now she needed all these qualities to fight her mother, whose vengeance had destroyed her prospects, and to claim for herself the love of Dexter Masters, whom her mother had coveted for years. Joan Brady won her man, a university degree, a happy marriage, and a new life in England. She had a son. Then after years away from the excrutiating physical demands of ballet, she decided to try again. At thirty-eight, she undertook an astonishing retraining programme and began the journey back to performance level and another chance - to take if she wished. The pages of this book are peopled with characters - many famous, some unknown - so powerful that they leap off the page. Joan Brady writes with exhilarating honesty of growing up, of the emotional and physical intensity of a dancer's life, and so - with ballet as allegory - of life itself: its elations, exhaustions, contraditions and despairs. This is a fierce and moving autobiography. It is also a testament to the reality of dreams that come true. Book. Codice articolo 000695
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Da: madelyns books, Suffolk, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Andre Deutsch Ltd 1994 revised edition.H/B. Fine condition in likewise dust jacket. Shipped quickly from the U/K. Images available on request. Codice articolo ABE-1582131442633
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Da: Scorpio Books, IOBA, Bungay, Regno Unito
Cloth. Condizione: Vg. Condizione sovraccoperta: Vg. Revised Edn. 213pp. Autor ex.member of Balanchine's Ballet Company, and novelist Size: 8vo. Codice articolo 001492
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