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"A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in...

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Main Author: Howrey, Meg (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2022]
Edition:First Edition.
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Ballet dancers > Fiction.
The AIDS crisis > Fiction.
Gay men > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary:"A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer just like her mother, Isabel, a former Balanchine ballerina. Since they live in Ohio, she only gets to see her father Robert for a few precious weeks a year when she visits Greenwich Village, where he lives in an enchanting apartment on Bank Street with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gives Carlisle an education in all that he holds dear in life-literature, music, and most of all, dance. Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and the sophistication of their lives, Carlisle's aspiration to become a dancer herself blooms, born of her desire to be asked to stay at Bank Street, to be included in Robert and James' world even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences that reverberate for decades to come. Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life, causing her to see with new eyes how her younger self has informed the woman she's become. They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist in America, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love"--
Physical Description:274 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780385548779
038554877X
9780593468005
0593468007
Author Notes:MEG HOWREY is the author of the novels The Wanderers , The Cranes Dance , Blind Sight , and most recently, They're Going to Love You , which was a New York Times Best Book of the Month and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. She is also the coauthor of the bestselling novels City of Dark Magic and City of Lost Dreams , published under the pen name Magnus Flyte. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue and The Los Angeles Review of Books . A former professional dancer, she currently lives in Los Angeles.

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