The Sleeping Beauty by Adrienne Sharp eBook
Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just been chosen for stardom by the great ballet master George Balanchine. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. Friends and lovers from an early age, they're an ambitious young pair on the thrilling precipice of fame, ill-prepared to handle the demands, seductions, expectations, and choices that are visited on them as they finally come within reach of their dreams.
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Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just been chosen for stardom by the great ballet master George Balanchine. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. Friends and lovers from an early age, they're an ambitious young pair on the thrilling precipice of fame, ill-prepared to handle the demands, seductions, expectations, and choices that are visited on them as they finally come within reach of their dreams.
This digital download includes .epub and .mobi files
Sandra is a dancer in the corps of the New York City Ballet who has just been chosen for stardom by the great ballet master George Balanchine. Adam is an explosively gifted new star who has defected to the rival company, the American Ballet Theatre. Friends and lovers from an early age, they're an ambitious young pair on the thrilling precipice of fame, ill-prepared to handle the demands, seductions, expectations, and choices that are visited on them as they finally come within reach of their dreams.
This digital download includes .epub and .mobi files
praise
"Sharp's bewitchingly sensual and trenchant tale embodies the sublime and the monstrous aspects of dance..."
—Booklist (starred review)
"For high drama and steamy sex delivered with craft, take [The Sleeping Beauty] to the beach."
—San Francisco Chronicle
about the author
Adrienne Sharp is the author of White Swan, Black Swan (Random House, 2001), a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection; The Sleeping Beauty (Riverhead, 2005), named one of Booklist's Ten Best First Novels of 2005; and The True Memoirs of Little K (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), a finalist for the California Book Award and translated into six languages. Her latest novel, The Magnificent Esme Wells, was published by HarperCollins in April 2018.