Quand, en 1913, ses deux enfants meurent à Paris dans un accident, Isadora Duncan est au sommet de sa carrière. Elle est mondialement connue, aussi bien comme celle qui a su révolutionner la danse classique que pour ses frasques amoureuses. Ce roman est le récit des mois d’errance européenne d’Isadora et de ses proches après l’accident, de sa quête artistique et personnelle pour se réinventer. Isadora parvient avec panache à rendre justice à sa puissance et à sa liberté, à sa cruauté aussi, et brosse le portrait vibrant d’une femme dont la créativité irradie au-delà de toutes les conventions sociales, même aux heures les plus sombres de son histoire. Isadora est un incroyable roman sur le deuil, mais aussi sur la liberté et les joies et les peines de la création artistique.
Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan’s life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist
In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children.
The accident cracked Isadora’s life in two: on one side, the brilliant young talent who captivated audiences the world over; on the other, a heartbroken mother spinning dangerously on the edge of sanity.
Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her breakout novel, Amelia Gray offers a relentless portrayal of a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life.
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Quand, en 1913, ses deux enfants meurent à Paris dans un accident, Isadora Duncan est au sommet de sa carrière. Elle est mondialement connue, aussi bien comme celle qui a su révolutionner la danse classique que pour ses frasques amoureuses. Ce roman est le récit des mois d’errance européenne d’Isadora et de ses proches après l’accident, de sa quête artistique et personnelle pour se réinventer. Isadora parvient avec panache à rendre justice à sa puissance et à sa liberté, à sa cruauté aussi, et brosse le portrait vibrant d’une femme dont la créativité irradie au-delà de toutes les conventions sociales, même aux heures les plus sombres de son histoire. Isadora est un incroyable roman sur le deuil, mais aussi sur la liberté et les joies et les peines de la création artistique.
Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan’s life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist
In 1913, the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering. But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of 1913 she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children.
The accident cracked Isadora’s life in two: on one side, the brilliant young talent who captivated audiences the world over; on the other, a heartbroken mother spinning dangerously on the edge of sanity.
Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her breakout novel, Amelia Gray offers a relentless portrayal of a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life.