The Cranes Dance, Meg Howrey
The Cranes Dance, Meg Howrey
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The Cranes Dance

Author: Meg Howrey

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2012

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake tonight. So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she cant help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kates but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home to Michigan. Alone for the first time in her life, Kate is anxious and full of guilt about the role she played in her sisters collapse. 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. Funny, dark, intimate, and unflinchingly honest,The Cranes Danceis a book that pulls back the curtains to reveal the private lives of dancers and explores the complicated bond between sisters.

About Meg Howrey

Meg Howrey is a former professional ballet dancer and actress. She is the author of the novels The Wanderers, The Cranes Dance, and Blind Sight and a coauthor of the bestselling novel City of Dark Magic and of City of Lost Dreams, published under the pen name Magnus Flyte. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on April 27, 2017

This was perfection! If you have any interest in ballet, which I do, there's a pretty good chance that you'll like this novel. It was written by a former ballet dancer, and it gives you a rare insight into the ups and downs of being part of this world. Kate and her sister Gwen are both professional......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer (Insert Lit Pun) on August 09, 2018

Still one of my favorite books - this one is very, very dear to me.......more

Goodreads review by Leanne on June 01, 2015

This novel manages to keep the glamorous mystique of professional ballet alive while still providing a backstage pass into an elite dancer's world. Kate Crane has almost - but not quite - reached the peak of her life's dream. She's an extremely talented soloist at a prestigious New York ballet compa......more

Goodreads review by Emily M on January 30, 2016

You shouldn't ask for forgiveness. Because of you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, then the absolution. I did not want this book to end......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on December 14, 2018

The Cranes Dance follows Kate Crane, a soloist in a professional ballet company in New York, where she dances alongside her younger and more talented sister Gwen. But Gwen has recently suffered a nervous breakdown and returned home, and now alone for the first time, Kate feels unmoored and on the ve......more

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