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| | Dancer by Colum McCann - read review |
 | | At the same time, Dancer also manages to capture the heart, making an unlikable egomaniac into an understandable human and his rise to stardom a goal the reader both shares and celebrates. |
 | | A former professional dancer soon became his mentor, and he began practicing every day, finding in the spirit of dance his escape from the hardships of poverty, the mockery of his classmates, and the resistance of his father to his artistic inclinations. |
 | | His family, his teachers, his acquaintances, his lovers, his employees, and even a schoolboy bully, a stilt-walker, and the captain of an airplane, who filed an "incident report" about his atrocious behavior aboard a plane, all comment on his actions and the choices he makes, personally and professionally. |
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