{"product_id":"once-a-dancer-allegra-kent-9780813034409","title":"Once a Dancer...: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAutobiography of one of Balanchine's finest ballerinas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a witty, evocative writer Ms. Kent is \"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A daffy and unexpectedly poignant autobiography. . . .  Kent] repossesses as a writer the unpredictable charm of her dancing. She is zanily elegant . . . frequently stranded, broke, desperate, abused, or abandoned, yet well served by a fey kind of gumption.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In  Balanchine's] garden of unearthly delights, Allegra Kent as the most enchanting bloom of all. . . . Through Kent's own wise and courageous recollections . . . we see her unique spirit and almost see again her glorious dancing.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Kent's] writing is as varied, lucid, and troubling as her dancing. . . . To ask whether she knows how much she has inadvertently told us is merely to frame one more time the terms of her peculiar mystery.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As distinctly riveting as she ever was on stage.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Dance Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kent, one feels, has never known quite where or who she is. . . . Born Iris Cohen in 1937, she had an early life that was the crazy kind you might find in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. . . .  She writes, ] ' Mr. B.] saw in me the psychological raw materials that could be molded and remolded into images of sensuality--unrealized and restrained, but there, just under the surface. The star inside the sapphire.' This is not only a convincing analysis of a difficult concept, it is beautiful writing.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allegra Kent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081303440X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813034409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Allegra Kent","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926378381567,"sku":"9780813034409","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_67429a7e-d151-4e06-9cfa-e577cab91712.jpg?v=1681082746","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/once-a-dancer-allegra-kent-9780813034409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}