Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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Author Julie Kavanagh
Format Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 2019-03-14
Pages 848
ISBN-13 9780241986905

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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

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Weight 0.57 kg
Dimensions 3.4 × 19.8 × 13.2 cm
Author

Julie Kavanagh
Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint

Penguin Books Ltd
Format

Paperback
ISBN-13

9780241986905
Publication Date

2019-03-14
Publication Year

2019
Pages

848
Country of Publication

GB
Language

English

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