{"product_id":"rudolf-nureyev-the-life","title":"Rudolf Nureyev - The Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eNOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES,and THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life'and Daily TelegraphBorn on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.'Magnificent, a triumph. Captures every facet of this extraordinary man'and Mail on Sunday'The definitive study of a man who, in his combination of aesthetic grace and psychological grime, can truly be called a sacred monster'and Observer'Undoubtedly the definitive biography'and Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julie Kavanagh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44222708088892,"sku":"9780241986905","price":1747.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9780241986905_201.jpg?v=1776770232","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/rudolf-nureyev-the-life","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}