READING DANCE: A GATHERING OF MEMOIRS, REPORTAGE, CRITICISM, PROFILES, INTERVIEWS, AND SOME UNCATEGORIZABLE EXTRAS
by Gottlieb, Robert (Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 037542122X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421228
- Seller
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Synopsis
Robert Gottlieb has been editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker . He has edited books by such dance luminaries as Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, and Lincoln Kirstein. He served for many years on the board of directors of New York City Ballet, working closely with Kirstein and Balanchine, and is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker . He has been for a decade the dance critic of the New York Observer , and writes frequently for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. His previously anthology, Reading Jazz , was acclaimed as a unique contribution to the jazz literature, and his Reading Lyrics (edited with Robert Kimball) has become a treasured resource for lovers of American popular song.
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- JB's Book Vault (US)
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- 004111
- Title
- READING DANCE: A GATHERING OF MEMOIRS, REPORTAGE, CRITICISM, PROFILES, INTERVIEWS, AND SOME UNCATEGORIZABLE EXTRAS
- Author
- Gottlieb, Robert (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 037542122X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421228
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Gottlieb, Reading, Dance, Dance Criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscellaneous;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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