The Resource Astonish me : a novel, Maggie Shipstead
Astonish me : a novel, Maggie Shipstead
- Summary
- "For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov. After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career. But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind--a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will always be just out of reach"--Page 4 of cover
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition
- Extent
- 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345804617
- Label
- Astonish me : a novel
- Title
- Astonish me
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Maggie Shipstead
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov. After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career. But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind--a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will always be just out of reach"--Page 4 of cover
- Title
- Astonish me
- Summary
- Helping a world-famous dancer to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States, ballerina Joan watches her friend's career soar while her own declines in the wake of her pregnancy and marriage, a situation that eventually exposes difficult secrets
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10298062
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- by Maggie Shipstead
- Label
- Astonish me : a novel, Maggie Shipstead
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- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
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- Control code
- 20374309
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition
- Extent
- 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345804617
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- http://library.link/vocab/recordID
- 20374309
Subject
- Ballerinas -- Fiction
- Ballet dancing -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Ballet
- California
- Celebrities
- Defectors -- Soviet Union
- Fame
- Families
- Family relationships
- Lifestyle change
- Literary fiction
- Married women
- Mothers and sons
- New York City
- Secrets
- Soviet Union
- Women ballet dancers
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