Adrienne Sharp studied ballet before turning to writing, and Booklist called White Swan, Black Swan, her acclaimed collection of short stories focusing on the world of dance, "breathtaking" in a starred review. In The True Memoirs of Little K, Sharp returns once again to the stage in a beautifully imagined tale of love. Now 99 years old, Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs, and ponders the life she lived as one of Russia's most talented dancers and the great love of Nikolai Romanov.
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“Sit back and be told a story, the rich and fantastic memoirs of ninety-nine-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska, ballerina with the Russian Imperial
Ballet, mistress to tsars and grand dukes…It’s a love story, a
triumph of will, set in a Chekhovian landscape. Perfect holiday reading.
The artist ends (like Akhmatova and countless others) an enemy of the
state, banished from history. She tells her story in an almost magical
way—the reader dissolves into another time and place.”
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Los Angeles Times