Description
| Product ID: | 9780241986905 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rudolf Nureyev |
| Subtitle: | The Life |
| Authors: | Author: Julie Kavanagh |
| Page Count: | 800 |
| Subjects: | Choreography, Choreography, Ballet, Contemporary dance, Biography: arts and entertainment, Ballet, Contemporary dance, Biography: arts & entertainment, England, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'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 NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-03-14 |