![]() ![]() It’s the single most exciting, defining, seemingly out-of-character thing about her. Joan, it turns out, played a key role in bringing Arslan to the west – she drove the getaway car as he sped away from his Russian minders while on tour in Canada. Her relationship with Arslan Rusakov, charismatic, world-famous Russian star, has ended, and she feels “taunted and robbed, deprived” as she watches him dance with his fiancée Ludmilla Yedemskaya, a fellow Russian star now living in New York. The story opens in New York, 1977, where corps de ballet member Joan Joyce is disillusioned. Without ever tipping into Black Swan-style melodrama, Shipstead carries her readers through to the book’s climax with an appropriately relentless, quixotic energy from the work’s quiet beginnings to a stunning, stagey ending. The story is rooted in the extraordinary, closed world of ballet. ![]()
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