Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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

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

• | Author: Julie Kavanagh
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Mar 14, 2019
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780241986905
• | ISBN-10: 0241986907