Margot Fonteyn: A Life

by Meredith Daneman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2005-10-04)
ISBN: 0140165304
EAN: 9780140165302
Binding/Media: Mass Market Paperback - 672 pages
Release Date: 2005-10-04
SKU: 696994
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: WITH A DUST JACKET. 1st edition, early print. HARDBACK BOOK, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. EX-LIBRARY (VERY CLEAN). SHIPS RAPIDLY BY EXPEDITED. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.

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Margot Fonteyn born plain Peggy Hookham was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism, Margot's sense of duty rather than ambition propelled her forward. Yet her gifts were such that her pre-eminence would come to eclipse the careers of subsequent generations. Ballet is a fairytale world; if Margot, like the pure and poetic heroine of Swan Lake, was a natural Odette, she would also have to contend with virtue's raw shadow-side in the guise of Constant Lambert, Roberto Arias and Rudolph Nureyev the men who, like Von Rothbart, were to take possession of her heart.

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