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Bezig met laden... De ware geschiedenis van Mathilde Kschessinska romandoor Adrienne Sharp
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This had everything I like - royalty behaving badly, lots of ballet, snowy St Petersburg streets, and a cranky narrator. Oh and some Faberge eggs. Delicious stuff. ( ) This is not a novel. Okay, it is. But it reads like a memoir, and quite frankly, I find them to be too self-consuming. There is no dialogue in this novel. It's a listing of detail (too much in my opinion) and never moves. It's a very static "novel." This makes it such a challenge to get into, because the character always feels so distant. This is very much a character study, but not one that was particularly well done. I'm moving on to other books after being stuck on this for months. You'd be best to pass it by. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made...Before the revolution, Kschessinska dominated that world as the greatest dancer of her age. At seventeen, her crisp, scything technique made her a star. So did her romance with the tsarevich Nicholas Romanov, soon to be Nicholas II. It was customary for grand dukes and sons of tsars to draw their mistresses from the ranks of the ballet, but it was not customary for them to fall in love. The affair could not endure: when Nicholas ascended to the throne as tsar, he was forced to give up his mistress, and Kschessinska turned for consolation to his cousins, two grand dukes with whom she formed an infamous m?age ?trois. But when Nicholas's marriage to Alexandra wavered after she produced girl after girl, he came once again to visit his Little K. As the tsar's empire--one that once made up a third of the world--began its fatal crumble, Kschessinka's devotion to the imperial family would be tested in ways she could never have foreseen."--From book jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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