Maggie Shipstead

Astonish Me

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For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov. After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career. But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind-a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will a… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-345-80461-7
EAN: 9780345804617
Produktnummer: 19423519
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 272 S.

Über den Autor

Maggie Shipstead is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel, Seating Arrangements, was a New York Times best seller, a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction.