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Dancer

Colum McCann

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 4047 Users | 478 Reviews

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

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2 stars - was okay - barely!McCann was just removed from my favored author list. I really struggled to complete this book. I also removed one star for the very poor punctuation in this book. One complete section was without any periods and capitalization at the beginning of sentences. What is that all about? What does that do for the book? What does that do for the reader? Only 336 pages and a mass production to take on. You had to guess at who the narrator was in each section of the book, until

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

Very brisk and rather quickly read. I picked this up idly from a friend's bookcase after a night of drinking, since I love to sleep but don't like to surrender that easily, and got through the bulk of it in one extended recumbency (semester's over, not much to do, figure I'd tack another contemporary up while I've got the time). the narrative is ideally suited for this kind of thing. McCann writes with some distinct, succinct, almost punchy sentences which follow each other so fluidly that the

"Dancer"......by Colum McCann is a breathtaking tribute the Russian Ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev...... I mean BREATHTAKING!!!!!This book is a novel, yet Colum McCann took his inspiration from biographical facts from Rudolf's life. WOW.... and what a story!!! Captivating....spanning over four decades. The lyrically powerful prose is seductive....intimate....bigger than life...."dazzling"!!!!Right from the start when 'Rudik' was a child in the Soviet Union ( 1941-1956)...we are transported back

This is certainly one of the very best biographical novels I've ever read. Truly unforgettable portrait of Nureyev and his passion and artistic drive.

This is a fictional account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev. It is told in an unconventional way. Various voices tell bits of their lives: Nureyevs sister, the daughter of one of his early dance instructors, his housekeeper, several lovers, etc. Often these stories seemed to be tangentially about Nureyev. Some voices were pure stream of consciousness while others used a more traditional narrative structure. In the end, the reader was given a glimpse at the way Nureyev was perceived by those in his

" This is not a biography, it's a story, a novel, a tale. For a long time I toyed with the idea of calling it a false portrait" Taken from Colum McCann's interview online. This is the story of the life of Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev and the people that surrounded him and for me it was the surrounding characters that took centre stage in this superbly written novel.I have read a few of McCann's novels some I have liked better than others but this story from the first chapter where Russian