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NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph 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. 'Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man' Mail on Sunday 'The definitive study of a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological grime, can truly be called a sacred monster' Observer 'Undoubtedly the definitive biography' Sunday Telegraph

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: arts & entertainment

• Full title: Rudolf Nureyev
• Author: Julie Kavanagh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800
• EAN: 9780241986905
• ISBN: 0241986907
• ID: 21461366
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 618 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 198 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. March 2019

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