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020 $a1555977871$q(paperback)
020 $a9781555977870$q(paperback)
024 $a40027500658
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn965745733
035 $a(OCoLC)965745733
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050 14 $aPS3608.A79$bC66 2017
082 04 $a813/.6$223
100 1 $aHaskell, John,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe complete ballet :$ba fictional essay in five acts /$cJohn Haskell.
264 1 $aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$bGraywolf Press,$c[2017]
264 4 $c©2017
300 $a200 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A public space book."
520 $aJohn Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicality--and psychology--of dance. The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the pre-cell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novel's violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person.
650 0 $aGambling$vFiction.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$vFiction.
655 7 $aNovels.$2lcgft
852 00 $bglx$hPS3608.A79$iC66 2017