{"product_id":"9780062457011","title":"A Collusion: Young Girls Becomes a Dancer","description":"From the vantage point of \"real life\" (as dancers say), \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a young girl's initiation into the disciplined, exalting world of classical ballet and into a secret love relationship with F., the ballet master whom she adored. \u003cp\u003e \"Do you want to be a great dancer?\" F. had asked her when she was twelve. She did. And so \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e tells of how she gave up ordinary life--family, boyfriends, hamburgers, homework, and pop music--for a life dedicated to the promise of artistry. At the center of that new life was always the figure of F.--ironic, moody, demanding, quixotically generous or withholding--who could control her with a sarcastic comment or the flash of his cane across her thigh, but also with the lyrical beauty of his classes and the vision of herself in a perfect arabesque. F. was the first man to partner her, and the first to teach her that love can come in strange forms: in the airborne lifts of \u003cem\u003eLes Sylphides,\u003c\/em\u003e in brilliant pirouettes, and in measured violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e describes the secret life of ballet. It is a life in which \"normal\" values are reversed. Brutality is seen as a gift, fear as devotion, sadism (rightly, in this case) as love. Free of conventional moral judgments, \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e tells of possession and surrender, of power and submission, of the bond between a young girl and an older man. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In spare, emotionally resonant prose, award-winning poet and novelist Evan Zimroth unfolds a mesmerizing story of artistic ambition, power, and love in an unforgettable memoir of adolescence. \u003cem\u003eCollusion\u003c\/em\u003e portrays a real relationship, one that society dares not speak of, and it does so with admirable honesty and sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070374265072,"sku":"9780062457011","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062457011_p0.jpg?v=1763631644","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062457011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}