BOOKS: Life and art in the balance; Margot Fonteyn By Meredith Daneman VIKING pounds 20 (654pp) pounds 18 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: November 5, 2004| Author: Angier, Carole | COPYRIGHT 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Carole Angier

Do you have to be a fan of the ballet to read this book? Do you have to be, indeed, a fan of Margot Fonteyn? No, you don't. If a biography were a kind of police report, as people sometimes seem to think, there would be no point in reading it unless you had a special interest in that particular life. But biography - at any rate good biography - is a window on the world, like any work of literature.

True, biographies are often long and deta...

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