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Mao's Last Dancer
by Cunxin, Li
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670073482
- ISBN 13
- 9780670073481
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin Books, Australia, 2009. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. This book is in very good or better condition. This copy is the UPDATED 2009 EDITION, with THREE NEW CHAPTERS. Illustrated with b&w photographs. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Li's story is amazing, not so much for the journey from physical and poilitical hardship to all the west has to offer, but more for the resolve a small boy had to muster in order to find his way out of the well. The true story of a small boy plucked from his family in a remote Chinese village to become a ballet star. You feel everything with this humble, sincere man, including - most exhilaratingly - the sensation of dancing. An inspiring story and beautifully written: a very deserving bestseller. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Entertainment & Performing Arts, Personal Memoirs, Classical; Inscribed by Author(s). ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780670073481. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0000733. . 9780670073481
Synopsis
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America-and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak-and-dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became known as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world. This is his story, told in his own inimitable voice.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000733
- Title
- Mao's Last Dancer
- Author
- Cunxin, Li
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0670073482
- ISBN 13
- 9780670073481
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- BZDB137 memoir, china, mao, ballet, dancer, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Personal Memoirs, Classical; Inscribed by Author(s) EAN: 9780670073481 Cunxin, Li Mao's Last Dancer
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