Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.” —Maria Semple. “A breathtaking work of art.”—O, The Oprah Magazine. “The power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR. “Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn’t let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.”—Dani Shapiro. · Shipstead nails the details of being perpetually en pointe” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn’t let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.” —Dani Shapiro “Sardonic and insightful [Shipstead] does caustic humor, simmering hostilities, and social envy well.”Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Review. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April "Etonnez-moi (astonish me)!"--was the great ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev's command to his collaborators and dancers, and it's just what this insistent, subtle novel did to me. A confession: I may have been the only reviewer who was not blown away by Maggie Shipstead's best-selling debut, Seating Arrangements. Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times-bestselling author of the novels Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and the recipient of a. Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead review - a bravura performance. Shipstead's tale of how a New York ballerina aids a Russian dancer's defection exposes ballet's cruel quest for perfection.
For her second novel, “Astonish Me,” Maggie Shipstead has leapt into this difficult territory — and landed, for the most part, on the same old stuff. Shipstead nails the details of being perpetually en pointe” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn’t let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.” —Dani Shapiro “Sardonic and insightful [Shipstead] does caustic humor, simmering hostilities, and social envy well.”. Astonish Me! Is the second novel by New York Times Bestselling author Maggie Shipstead. For this novel she mostly focuses on dance; ballet to be more precise. The Nutcracker is a famous ballet that is performed every Christmas which makes this book a perfect holiday read! Synopsis: Joan and Jacob have known one another since high school.
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