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Description for Dancer
Hardcover. Number 68 of 75 specially bound copies. Signed and numbered by author. Quarter goatskin with raised bands, hand tooled spine, top edge gilt and marble boards. Copy fine in fine slipcase
This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer. Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, became the ... Read more
This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer. Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, became the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Signed by the author
Yes
1st Edition
Yes
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781897580295
SKU
KOC0003426
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Colum Mccann
Colum McCann was born in 1965. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been nominated for both the IRISH TIMES Fiction Prize and the Impac Prize. He has travelled widely and is currently based in New York with his wife and two young children.
Reviews for Dancer
A remarkable novel loosely based on the life of world famous dancer Rudolf Nureyev by the author of This Side of Brightness. Rudik, as the boy is called, appears at the beginning aged six, dancing for weary Russian troops trudging back from the front through a wasteland of ice and snow to the city of Ufa. We follow his life ... Read more