Adrienne Sharp: 4 books

Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg....

The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated with a coltish young dancer who proves both siren and muse. A rising star plunges into an affair with a principal but finds that ecstasy on the stage can't be surpassed in the bed. A dying legend reflects on the evanescent beauty of a life of...

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early...

È il 23 marzo 1890 a San Pietroburgo e, nell’ampio corridoio del teatro Mariinskij, è in corso una delle sfilate più emozionanti che sia dato vedere nella splendida città affacciata sul golfo di Finlandia. La famiglia reale è accorsa al gran completo per il saggio finale delle giovani allieve...