![]() ![]() As Roderick singles her out as a star and subjects her to increasingly vicious training, Georgia obsesses about becoming his perfect student, disciplined and sexless. This dynamic is nowhere more obvious than in Georgia's relationship with Artistic Director Roderick Allen. In ballet, she finds the exhilarating control and power she lacks elsewhere in her life: physical, emotional and, increasingly, sexual. When she is accepted into the notoriously exclusive Royal Ballet Academy-Canada's preeminent dance school-Georgia thinks she has made the perfect escape. Fortunately, she's an unusually talented and promising dancer. Shy and introverted, and trapped between the hyper-sexualized world of her teenaged friends and her dysfunctional family, Georgia is only at ease when she's dancing. Nuanced, fresh, and gorgeously well-written, Martha Schabas' extraordinary debut novel takes us inside the beauty and brutality of professional ballet, and the young women striving to make it in that world. ![]()
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