Keith Baxter

To fame by leaps and bounds

issue 11 January 2003

  • DANCER

    Colum McCann

    Weidenfeld, pp. 291

Here is an astonishing book. It is a biography of Rudolph Nureyev written as a piece of fiction, but it is not a roman

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