Rudolf Nureyev. The Life

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: Reprint

Description: 787 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Born on a train in Stalins Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballets first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage. Nureyevs achievements and conquests became he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirovs thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentors wife; defected to the West in l961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; gave his rabid sexuality full reign; 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 Russias unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. Julie Kavanaghs uncompromising and magnificent biography, ten years in the making, is a brilliant tribute to a superstar the world can never forget.

ISBN: 9780141029696