{"product_id":"9781466848696","title":"Dancer: A Novel","description":"OpenRoad - \u003cb\u003eThe National Book Award–winning author's biographical novel of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev: \"Exuberant and exhilarating . . . a brilliant leap of imagination\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   In Dancer, Colum McCann tells the ballet icon's story through the myriad voices of those who knew him. There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who rescues her protégé from the stunted life of his provincial town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; and Victor, the Venezuelan street hustler, who reveals the lurid underside of the gay celebrity set.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the horrors of the Second World War to the wild abandon of New York in the '80s, \u003ci\u003eDancer\u003c\/i\u003e is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous: doormen and shoemakers, nurses and translators, Margot Fonteyn, Eric Bruhn, and John Lennon. And at the heart of the spectacle stands the artist himself, willful, lustful, and driven by a never-to-be-met need for perfection.","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156999717104,"sku":"9781466848696","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466848696_p0.jpg?v=1769891479","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466848696","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}