Nureyev: His Life
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688128734 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 625 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Without a doubt the most thoroughly researched book among all Without a doubt the most thoroughly researched book among all I've read about this incredible genius.After reading, I felt I learned every facet of his driven life Nureyev would allow us to know. A compelling read.. Content of book was excellent though. Binding fell apart a quarter of the way through. Content of book was excellent though.. Theodore G. Mihran said Gripping, fascinating story of the man who changed ballet.. Diane Solway has researched and written an altogether fascinating biography of Rudolf Nureyev, the dancer who changed classical ballet in the "Gripping, fascinating story of the man who changed ballet." according to Theodore G. Mihran. Diane Solway has researched and written an altogether fascinating biography of Rudolf Nureyev, the dancer who changed classical ballet in the 20th century. He was born to a impoverished family in Russia and untimately died on his private island purchased with the millions he made during his dance career--a true. 0th century. He was born to a impoverished family in Russia and untimately died on his private island purchased with the millions he made during his dance career--a true
Solway chronicles his flamboyant, extravagant lifestyle, his celebrity-studded circle of friends -- Jacqueline Onassis, Andy Warhol, and Marlene Dietrich, to name only three -- his stormy love affairs, his homosexual promiscuity, and his death from AIDS in 1993.Nureyev was his own masterpiece, a man always in the process of reinventing himself. Everyone knows the name Rudolf Nureyev, but does anyone know the man behind the myth? Diane Solway does; she spent over four years and conducted more than 200 interviews with his family, his friends and lovers, his colleagues, and even his doctors to research Nureyev: His Life the first book to capture him as he was onstage and off -- a great artist whose talent was matched only by his steely wi
Biographer Diane Solway, who wrote Dance Against Time, a biography of Joffrey Ballet dancer Edward Sterle, has produced an exhaustively comprehensive report on Nureyev's life. He carried on affairs with men and women alike--most notable among these was his intense, decades-long involvement with his professional idol Erik Bruhn and his penchant for sexy young call-boys. His professional accomplishments are stunning. By the end of his first year in the West--in 1961 he became the first Soviet dancer to defect when he stayed in Paris after the rest of the Kirov returned to the U.S.S.R--he had performed with the major ballet companies in both Europe and the United States, and formed his legendary partnership with British dancer Dame