Distractions En Route: A Dancer's Notebook and other magasin stories NEUF

Product Name: Distractions En Route: A Dancer's Notebook and other magasin stories NEUF
magasin EAN：9781312528499 UPC：9781312528499 ISBN：9781312528499 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 252 pages
The gripping tales in Alonsos "Distractions" reflect an attention to detail which ushers each through a graceful and credible telling. Relationships blossom and crumble, except in rare instances of mutual acknowledgement and respect. There are characters well worth our empathy, and surely those that rate sympathy, while others perfectly merit our undiluted loathing. Whats important is they all grab our interest, even the dour old aunt who, in one tale, poses for a memorable portrait: "Listening to her is like opening a closet full of dead peoples shoes." Nina Rubinstein Alonso is a poet and lifelong devotee and practitioner of ballet, the art and discipline of which are implicit in these intimate excursions on the highways and byways of memory. - Tomas OLeary.