I suspect only a poet would be equal to it. Though Daneman doggedly hauls aspects of them into view and pontificates upon them, her sensibilities, thinking, and writing style are insufficiently sophisticated for the task of making Fonteyn live on paper. Be the first to ask a question about A Chance To Sit Down Lists with This Book This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Edit Details To ask other readers questions about, please sign up. The artistry, however, and even the personality as a whole never get illuminated. 2 reviews Get A Copy Amazon Stores Libraries 223 pages More Details.This includes an exhaustive list of her lovers and testaments to her sexual avidity, piquantly at odds with the sublime purity she embodied onstage. True to current taste, Daneman aims for a portrait of the artist as a flesh-and-blood woman. Accordingly, the dancer and novelist Meredith Daneman allows herself nearly 600 pages to tackle the subject of Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), that beloved icon of classical dancing, the epitome of the exquisitely refined English style, and-hand in hand with Frederick Ashton, for whom she served as muse-a linchpin in the development of British ballet. Meredith Daneman 3. The fashion in biography today calls for exorbitant length and the revelation-in the interests of truth, shock value, or both-of what used to be called a person’s private life. Fonteyn: Avid flesh-and-blood woman photo: Penguin Putnam Inc.
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