The Sleeping Beauty
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 1594481989 / Publisher: Riverhead Trade, June 2006
Friends and lovers from an early age, ballet dancers Adam and Sandra find themselves ill-prepared for the demands of attaining their hopes of stardom, promised when an aging and ailing ballet master finds in Sandra a muse who may fulfill his dream of creating an opulent performance of Sleeping Beauty. Originally published as First Love. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just been chosen for stardom by the great ballet master George Balanchine. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. They're an ambitious young pair on the thrilling precipice of fame, ill-prepared to handle the demands, seductions, expectations, and choices that are visited on them as they finally come within reach of their dreams.
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