Haskell, John
The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts
- ISBN 13:
- 9781555977870
- author:
- Haskell, John
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Graywolf Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 20.83 x 13.97 x 1.52 centimetres
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Collections,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
A dark-hued novel that reimagines fiction and criticism as a new kind of story. John Haskell's The Complete Ballet is a hybrid work that weaves together five romantic ballets with a contemporary tale of obsession and despair. As the unnamed narrator navigates his own abyss, he becomes entangled in a world of Hollywood glamour and underground poker games, where the lines between reality and myth blur. Through its intricate pas de deux of fiction and criticism, The Complete Ballet explores the physicality and psychology of dance, as well as the nature of art and identity. Haskell's prose is both pulpy entertainment and profound meditation, drawing on the lives and obsessions of ballet legends like Nijinsky and Pavlova, as well as film directors like John Cassavetes. A haunting consideration of the human condition, The Complete Ballet is a compulsively readable work that will leave readers with a lasting impression.
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