PublishedPenguin, March 2019 |
ISBN9780241986905 |
FormatSoftcover, 800 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 3.6cm |
The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes
Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.
Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary- he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.
