About the Book: Dancer
Spins with virtuosic, charismatic brilliance around a core of wilful mystery
Guardian
Russia in the 1940s. A small boy practises spinning on his mothers wooden
floors, entranced by what he can make his body do. His momentum will propel him
far from home; we watch him turn, through the lives of his teachers, his
partners on and off stage, through the eyes of doormen and shoemakers, hustlers
and nurses, through the rehearsal rooms of Moscow to Parisian opera houses to
the streets of New York ablaze as a comet, his light hot enough to catch and
burn.
Masterfully blending fact and