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Title	:	Dancer
Author	:	Colum McCann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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

Dancer

Colum McCann

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 4047 Users | 478 Reviews

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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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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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Ratings: 3.92 From 4047 Users | 478 Reviews

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I have no idea how I want to rate this book. It took me quite a while to finish because while reading it I thought I didn't like it. Now that I finished it, I realize I liked it more that I thought I would. There are parts hard to read, Victor's (and somewhat Nureyev's) lifestyle, the horrible way of life in Russia that Nureyev's family and friends had to endure, for example. I did come to like several of the characters, like his housekeeper Odile, his shoemaker Tom, friend Yulia and her parents

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

I debated over 3 and 4 stars on this one. The result of reading this book is that I am now fascinated with Rudolf Nureyev, the man. After finishing the book, I was scouring the internet for more information. That alone is an indication that the book had a big impact on me. But there were parts of it that I didn't care for.What I liked about the book is that is wasn't just about Rudy, it was also about the settings (Russia, Paris, New York), the time period (WWII, Studio 54, emergence of AIDS),

4+ stars. In the epigraph at the beginning of The Dancer, the author Colum McCann quotes William Maxwell, In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Most of us can attest to that, drawing upon our own memories and then when comparing them with siblings, and other significants, find that our own accounts sometimes vary to the point of did we share the same experience? The beauty of this multiple POV novel is a glimpse of the greatness of ballet as an art form, a

Dancer is a work of fiction about the life of Rudolf Nureyev. I am a balletomane. I first became enchanted with the art form when I read a book about Vaslav Nijinski in high school. Then my aunt took me to see the Royal Danish Ballet perform Coppelia at NYC's Metropolitan Opera House. I was hooked. While I never got to see Nureyev dance, SHE did. And seeing Nureyev with Margot Fonteyn was the catalyst that ignited HER interest in ballet. Today my son is training to be a professional ballet

Reads like poetry. Another hit for Colum McCann!

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