Dancer,Colum McCann

On offer is hand signed hardback 1st edition book titled Dancer by Colum McCann\n\nSynopsis\n\nThis novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a\n ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own \nhunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted\n as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They \nfind both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among \nthem, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who?ll watch him, is one \nsmall pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann?s dancer: Rudolf, a \nprodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century,\n who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before \nanyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into \nextraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his \ngeneration. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another \nin Colum McCann?s beautiful ande