Colum McCann

Bookworm

Colum McCann

Clean

Published on Mar 13, 2003, 12:00:00 AM
Total time: 00:28:54

Episode Description

Dancer (Metropolitan)

Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating, glittering, suspended in bright air. We discover how the subject, Nureyev, taught McCann a new way to write.

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