5/7/2023 0 Comments Astonish me![]() She’s doomed to be a good dancer, good enough to know she’ll never be a great one. “His movements are quick but unhurried, impossible in their clarity and difficulty and extraordinary in how they seem to burst from nowhere.”Īnd she’s just as alluring when she shows the young genius lounging in his apartment, drunk on a nation’s praise, trying to divine how to act in this new world of infinite possibilities.īut the novel’s real focus stands off in the wings: a young American woman named Joan. ![]() For a dance novel to work, it has to dazzle us with great dance, and though Shipstead claims she has no aptitude at the barre, she can choreograph arresting scenes of Arslan at work: “His technique is not fusty but pure,” she writes. ![]()
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