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Astonish me novel7/3/2023 ![]() Joan is talented, but not enough, which is noted to devastating effect when Arslan, her lover, throws her over for a better ballerina. There is something a little bit punk and a little bit prim about these waif women, desperate and scrappy, living on cigarettes, half bananas, and their crippling ambition. Indeed, the way Joan and her more talented roommate, Elaine, navigate their careers is wholly absorbing: the obsession with self-control, the physical rigors of company life, the jealousies and constant disappointments. But Shipstead creates such a vivid and convincing world that there is no need to overlay it with historical comparisons. ![]() ![]() K calls to mind George Balanchine, and Arslan bears enough resemblance to Baryshnikov that it is hard not to picture himĪs such. ![]()
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