Books by Adrienne Sharp and Complete Book Reviews

Adrienne Sharp, Author . Random $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-50420-4
The dance world becomes palpably real in this accomplished debut collection by Sharp, a former member of the Harkness Ballet of New York, as she explores both the exultation and the physical and emotional stresses of professional ballet. The dancers
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Adrienne Sharp, Author . Riverhead $23.95 (341p) ISBN 978-1-57322-310-2
Former ballerina Sharp presents a sentimental portrait of two ballet dancers, Sandra Ellis and Adam LaSalle, in her debut novel (after her collection White Swan, Black Swan ). Best friends since the age of 15, Sandra and Adam become lovers in their...
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Adrienne Sharp, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-20730-4
Sharp impressively conjures the grand life of Mathilde Kschessinka, Russian prima ballerina and mistress of Czar Nicholas II, in her sweeping third novel (after The Sleeping Beauty). Narrated by Mathilde—"Little K" as she was affectionately known—the
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Adrienne Sharp. Harper, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-268483-7
The glamour of pre–WWII Hollywood and the glitz of postwar Las Vegas are the playgrounds of young Esme Wells and her dreamer parents—her small-time crook and unlucky bookie father, and her mother, a movie star wanna-be who never gets past showgirl...
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  • Open Book: The Magnificent Adrienne Sharp
  • Adrienne Sharp's Girl’s Life
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