![]() ![]() ![]() Joan manages to evade the Kirov Ballet security men and enters the star’s dressing room, where she makes an unforgettable impression on him. While Joan is spending a year as a quadrille, a junior member of the Paris Opéra Ballet, she watches Arslan Rusakov rehearse from one of the dark crimson red loge boxes at the Palais Garnier. It is the story of Joan, an American ballet dancer who is starstruck (why not just say “astonished?”) by a famous star of the Russian Kirov Ballet. It’s a steamy story of love and ambition in the competitive world of professional ballet. You might have heard of this book by now. The latest is Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf 2014), which I highly recommend. I don’t know how I do it, but it seems that every book I pick up these days has at least a touch of Paris in it. ![]()
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