Secret Muses. The Life Of Frederick Ashton

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: First Edition

Description: 675 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Sir Frederick Ashton, Britains greatest choreographer, was a major figure on the cultural landscape of the twentieth century and his influence extended far beyond the world of dance. Julie Kavanagh traces Ashtons progress with a keen and sympathetic sense of both the man and his milieu. The drama of his professional and private life - among his close associates were Constant Lambert, Benjamin Britten, W. B. Yeats, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - is skilfully interwoven with vivid descriptions of the ballets themselves. Not only the best biography of a ballet figure but, far more important, a Proustian recollection of that glamorous near-mythical time, the first half of our now setting century. Gore Vidal

ISBN: 9780571190621