Julie Kavanagh

Magnificent, compulsively readable

A gripping account of an extraordinary life

Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man

Undoubtedly the definitive biography. Rudolf Nureyev, superstar, emerges in all his terribly flawed glory

The definitive study of a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological grime, can truly be called a sacred monster

Julie Kavanagh writes with flair and abundance

The Life

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.

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Magnificent, compulsively readable

A gripping account of an extraordinary life

Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man

Magnificent, compulsively readable

A gripping account of an extraordinary life

Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man

Magnificent, compulsively readable

A gripping account of an extraordinary life

Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man

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