Real Nureyev An Intimate Memoir of Ballet's Greatest Hero

Name: Real Nureyev An Intimate Memoir of Ballet's Greatest Hero
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ISBN: 9780312340971

ISBN-10: 0312340974

ISBN-13: 9780312340971

Edition: 2006

Authors: Carolyn Soutar

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The Real Nureyevis an intensely personal, under-the-skin depiction of ballet’s greatest hero. Written by Carolyn Soutar, who worked with Nureyev at the London Coliseum during the 1980s, this biography focuses a six-year period of his life when his career was drawing to a close and this once phenomenal dancer began to call himself “Old Galoshes,” in recognition of his fading powers. From his close friends we learn of the changes in Nureyev: from a young man eager to learn, searching for perfection in a body he believed to be flawed, to the knowledgeable and difficult superstar that he would become. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, yet always deeply human,The Real Nureyevis an intimate…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 12/27/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Prologue - Russian Roulette



Rewriting History



The Haircut



The Nureyev Dress



Raspberries



Let's Go Hunting



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