Nureyev: The Life - Rilegato

Kavanagh, Julie

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ISBN 10: 0375405135 ISBN 13: 9780375405136

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 2007

Riassunto

A definitive portrait of the iconic ballet dancer describes Nureyev's Soviet youth, his dramatic 1961 defection to the West, the extraordinary performances that transformed him into an international celebrity, his flamboyant lifestyle, his major influence on the modern history of dance, his notorious sexual escapades, and the AIDS that claimed his life in 1993. 25,000 first printing.

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Praise for Julie Kavanagh's Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton

"Not only the best biography of a ballet figure but, far more important, a Proustian recollection of that glamorous near-mythical time, the first half of our now setting century."
--Gore Vidal

"[Julie Kavanagh is] a Nancy Mitford of ballet, mingling gossip, social history, and critical commentary. London in the twenties and thirties... is re-created from personal accounts rendered at first hand, not mined from books."
--Arlene Croce, The New Yorker

"Both critically authoritative and juicily anecdotal... An evident affection for England's first great choreographer doesn't stop Kavanagh from making fun of Ashton's unbridled snobbery and legendary meanness."
--Miranda Seymour, The Sunday Times (London)

"A remarkable achievement. It is fresh, crisp, and clear... An intimate and compelling portrait of a great artist."
--Howard Hodgkin

"A razor-sharp, often uproariously funny portrait of a demi-monde [that] is fascinating even to those poor souls with zero enthusiasm for ballet."
--Rupert Christiansen, The Spectator

L'autore:

Julie Kavanagh is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton, which won the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize. She trained in ballet before taking up a career in journalism and has been Arts Editor of Harpers & Queen, a dance critic for The Spectator, and London Editor of both Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375405135
• ISBN 13: 9780375405136
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 800