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A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired millions, an artist whose name stood for genius, sex, and excess--the magnificence of Rudolf Nureyev's life and work are known, but in this novel McCann reinvents this erotically charged figure, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection, through the light he cast on those who knew him.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Colum McCann
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Sound Library, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780297829447
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