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Astonish Me is the amazing account of Joan, a North american dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A adobe flash of popularity and a passionate romance follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she actually is destined to remain in the background. She'll never have got Arslan, and she'll never be considered a prima ballerina. She'll rise no greater than the corps, one dancer among many.After her marriage with Arslan sours, Joan plots to make a new lease of life for herself. She quits ballet, marries a good man, and settles in California with him and their son, Harry. But as the years cross, Joan comes to understand that ballet isn't finished with her yet, for there is absolutely no mistaking that Harry is a prodigy. Through Harry, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind - back into dangerous secrets, and back, inevitably, to Arslan.Incorporating a sweeping, operatic plot with subtly noticed personas, Maggie Shipstead provides us a book of stunning power and deft mental nuance. Gripping, remarkable, and brilliantly conjured, Astonish Me confirms Shipstead's range and capacity and raises provocative questions about the nature of talent, the options we must make searching for fulfillment, and how exactly we square the yearning for comfort with the demands of art.
