| Once a Dancer...: An Autobiography Reissue Edition Contributor(s): Kent, Allegra (Author) |
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ISBN: 081303440X ISBN-13: 9780813034409 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009279605 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Autobiography of one of Balanchine's finest ballerinas "What a witty, evocative writer Ms. Kent is "--New York Times "A daffy and unexpectedly poignant autobiography. . . . Kent] repossesses as a writer the unpredictable charm of her dancing. She is zanily elegant . . . frequently stranded, broke, desperate, abused, or abandoned, yet well served by a fey kind of gumption."--Kirkus Reviews "In Balanchine's] garden of unearthly delights, Allegra Kent as the most enchanting bloom of all. . . . Through Kent's own wise and courageous recollections . . . we see her unique spirit and almost see again her glorious dancing."--Vanity Fair " Kent's] writing is as varied, lucid, and troubling as her dancing. . . . To ask whether she knows how much she has inadvertently told us is merely to frame one more time the terms of her peculiar mystery."--Wall Street Journal "As distinctly riveting as she ever was on stage."--Dance Magazine "Kent, one feels, has never known quite where or who she is. . . . Born Iris Cohen in 1937, she had an early life that was the crazy kind you might find in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. . . . She writes, ] ' Mr. B.] saw in me the psychological raw materials that could be molded and remolded into images of sensuality--unrealized and restrained, but there, just under the surface. The star inside the sapphire.' This is not only a convincing analysis of a difficult concept, it is beautiful writing."--Washington Post |