New York: Henry Holt - Metropolitan Books, (2003.). First edition - "The epic life and times of Rudolf Nureyev, reimagined in a dazzlingly inventive masterpiece" - spanning four decades from the horrors of Stalingrad to New York in the 80's. Among those praising the author is Joyce Carol Oates who says 'melancholy, beauty and resignation characterize McCann's understated luminous language.' 333 pp.