Astonish Me (Vintage Contemporaries) by Maggie Shipstead Paperback Book

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Author: Maggie Shipstead

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books

Published: Jan 2015

Genre: Fiction - Family Life

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 304

Synopsis

For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov. After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career.
 
But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind—a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will always be just out of reach.

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