{"product_id":"dancer","title":"Dancer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThe novel opens on a battlefield with Russian soldiers exhausted and hungry. They find food, shelter, and music and dance, including a young boy named Rudolf who becomes the greatest dancer of the century. This is an extraordinary life transformed into fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 03 September 2020\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemarkable ... nimble,lyrical and wispy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn utterly riveting,frequently moving,and staggeringly well-written book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBreathtaking\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis novel opens on a battlefield:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who will watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Colum McCann's dancer: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 276g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 129 x 197 x 28 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526617361                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colum McCann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44094363762938,"sku":"9781526617361","price":8.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/79d7f65578b09982fac40f874e492f37.jpg?v=1621011687","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/dancer","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}