I, Maya

From: Dance Teacher | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Tu, Jeni | Copyright information

I, Maya

By Maya Pliserskaya

Yale University Press

Like your aunt who has a tendency to ramble during Thanksgiving dinner, Maya Plisetskaya is the sort of memoirist who leaves off telling one story to pick up the strand of another one that happened 20 years later, wildly fluctuating between times, people and places. Except that Plisetskaya's tales run the gamut from being trailed by the KGB on her way home from rehearsal to taking summer vacation with composer pal Dmitr...

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