Girl Through Glass: A Novel - Couverture souple

Wilson, Sari

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062497707 ISBN 13 : 9780062497703

Editeur : Harper, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“A tragic depiction of a girl adored far too soon by a grown-up world...Artfully rendered through the viewpoint of an adolescent dancer who performs with great maturity while remaining fatefully naïve...So visceral, so real.” (Washington Post)

“Masterful...Wilson’s New York City imagery is applied exquisitely and dynamically...In the end, the well-honed story line of GIRL THROUGH GLASS is not unlike a certain kind of stylized psychological ballet, á la Antony Tudor, with heightened characters dancing along dire boundaries. Powerfully stark.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

“A haunting portrait of obsession, ambition, sacrifice, and the secrets one woman thought she left in the past.” (Buzzfeed)

“A nimble, nuanced psychological drama that leaps through time and place with an appropriate and assured agility...Wilson speaks with vibrant authority and acute vulnerability as she exposes the conflicted and competitive behind-the-scenes world of professional ballet.” (Booklist (starred review))

“Intense and mesmerizing.” (People Magazine)

“The book’s subject is less the ballet itself than the costs of early virtuosity—the feeling of being propelled by a force you don’t understand and can’t control—and the dangerous intoxication of the perfect, weightless moments when everything but ‘air, motion, height’ falls away.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Few novels have affected me as deeply as Sari Wilson’s GIRL THROUGH GLASS...I loved, loved, loved this novel. So much so that I hid from my kids in the bathroom so I could read it!” (Joanna Rakoff, author of MY SALINGER YEAR)

“Powerful. Gripping. Incandescent...As powerful storytelling kept me turning the pages, Wilson’s extraordinary voice whispered to me about the things that both bind and divide us: desire, ambition and love. This book will stay in my heart for a long time.” (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of GIRL IN TRANSLATION)

“Wilson’s take on the New York City dance scene is pungent and vivid and slyly satirical...This novel of a girl who grows up way too soon is deftly plotted and beautifully written, and is about as suspenseful and affecting as a coming-of-age story can be.” (Daniel Orozco, author of ORIENTATION AND OTHER STORIES)

“An astonishing debut. At once chilling and sensual, furious and tender, GIRL THROUGH GLASS...will leave you haunted, mesmerized, and wanting more. I loved it.” (Elizabeth L. Silver, author of THE EXECUTION OF NOA P. SINGLETON)

Quatrième de couverture :

An enthralling literary debut that tells the story of a young girl’s coming-of-age in thecutthroat world of New York City ballet—a story of obsession and perfection, trust and betrayal, beauty and lost innocence

In the roiling summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira is an aspiring ballerina in the romantic, highly competitive world of New York City ballet. Enduring the mess of her parents’ divorce, she finds escape in dance—the rigorous hours of practice, the exquisite beauty, the precision of movement, the obsessive perfectionism. Ballet offers her control, power, and the promise of glory. It also introduces her to forty-seven-year-old Maurice DuPont, a reclusive, charismatic balletomane who becomes her friend and mentor.

Over the course of three years, Mira is accepted into the prestigious School of American Ballet, run by the legendary George Balanchine, and eventually becomes one of “Mr. B’s girls”—a dancer of rare talent chosen for greatness. As she ascends in the ballet world, her relationship with Maurice intensifies, touching dark places within herself and sparking unexpected desires that will upend both their lives.

In the present day, Kate, a professor of dance at a midwestern college, embarks on a risky affair with a student that threatens to obliterate her career and capsize the new life she has painstakingly created for her reinvented self. When she receives a letter from a man she’s long thought dead, Kate is hurled back into the dramas of a past she thought she had left behind.

Moving between the past and the present, Girl Through Glass illuminates the costs of ambition, perfection, secrets, and the desire for beauty, and reveals how the sacrifices we make for an ideal can destroy—or save—us.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062497707
• ISBN 13: 9780062497703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304