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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rudik: Add a description of this character.
- Victor
- Monsieur
- Anna
- Tom
- Margot
- Erik
- Ilya
- Kolya
- Emilio
- Tamara
- Rosa Maria
- Sergei
- Ruth
- Sasha
- Dmitri
- Gillian
- Galina
- Nuriya
- Nureyev
- Hamet
- Mrs. Godstalk
- Tito
- Olga
- Odile
- Mister Ashworth
- Gilbert
- Mama
- Karl Marx Street
- Fonteyn
- Richter
- Pasternak
- Stalin
- Larissa
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“She began working with him on jumps - she told him that above all he must create what his feet wished for, and it was not so much that hemust jump higher than anyone else but that he should remain in the air longer. "Stay in the air longer! "Yes, she said, hang on to God's beard. "His beard? "And do not land like a cow. "Cows jump?”
Conversation between Nureyev & Anna, his first teacher.
First Sentence edit
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.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Colum McCann (Author)
Awards edit
- Irish Book Award (2004: Hughes and Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, Winner)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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