The Cranes Dance holds the reader and develivers a gripping story about Kate Crane (Yeah, yeah Crane, Swan.) and how her life is in turmoil after suffers a breakdown and returns home. This is not a glamourous book about rich sisters and they dramatic ballet performances and flakly social lives. The Cranes dance is a novel that not only covers the world of dancing and ballet but does so in a very real way. "I purchased this novel because I loved the cover and the topic was one I had only watched before but never read about. Funny, dark, intimate, and unflinchingly honest, The Cranes Dance is a book that pulls back the curtains to reveal the private lives of dancers and explores the complicated bond between sisters. As we follow her on an insider tour of rehearsals, performances, and partners onstage and off, she confronts the tangle of love, jealousy, pride, and obsession that are beginning to fracture her own sanity.
At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate's but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home to Michigan.Īlone for the first time in her life, Kate is anxious and full of guilt about the role she played in her sister's collapse.
Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company.
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake tonight.
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