Author

Publication

2009-06-23 - Picador

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCPR6063.C335 D36 2009

Description

"A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired the adoration of millions, an artist whose name was a byword for genius, sex, and excess. The magnificence of Rudolf Nureyev's life and work is known, but now Colum McCann reinvents this figure through the light he shed on the lives of those who knew him."

First Sentence

Four winters. They built roads through drifts with horses, pitching them forward into the snow until the horses died, and then they ate the horsemeat with great sadness.

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