Saturday, October 22

Win Various Positions--_CLOSED

Summary:  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. 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. Fortunately, she's an unusually talented and promising dancer. When she is accepted into the notoriously exclusive Royal Ballet Academy--Canada's preeminent dance school--Georgia thinks she has made the perfect escape. In ballet, she finds the exhilarating control and power she lacks elsewhere in her life: physical, emotional and, increasingly, sexual. 


This dynamic is nowhere more obvious than in Georgia's relationship with Artistic Director Roderick Allen. 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. But a disturbing incident with a stranger on the subway, coupled with her dawning recognition of the truth of her parents' unhappy marriage, causes her to radically reassess her ideas about physical boundaries--a reassessment that threatens both Roderick's future at the academy and Georgia's ambitions as a ballerina.





By Martha Schabas
Donated by Ksenia (publisher)
ARC Edition
Open To United States Only

39 comments:

Cathy De Los Santos said...

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LoriStrongin said...

Sounds good! Ever since watching Center Stage, I've loved books about the reality of the professional dancer's world.


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Gabrielle Carolina said...

Yes, please!

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Laura @thereadingnook said...

Been dying to read a book about dancers!!!



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Maddz said...

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Shannon The Bookstalker said...

Count me in! I really enjoy reading books set in the dance world.

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Rebecca (RivkaBelle) said...

Ballet books are showing up in multiples, definitely interested!

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~The Book Pixie said...

This sounds like a book I'd enjoy. Please enter me. :D

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Linda Kish said...

I would love to win a copy of this book.

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Editor Cassandra said...

Please enter me! Thanks, Cindy!

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Jasmine Rose said...

It sounds so dirty :P

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linz said...

This sounds so original and interesting. Thanks so much!

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Thanks for the giveaway!

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Lena1xoxo said...

Ooooh, I like the sound of this one!

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Kayla said...

Yay! I love ballet! Or at least I love reading and watching movies about it. I never danced myself. :)

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Christi said...

Thanks for the giveaway!

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Audris said...

Love the cover!

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Kathleen Brown said...

Dance books seem to be a new trend but this one looks particularly excellent.

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Kapri (Book Fanatics) said...

This one looks so good!

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Sophia said...

Ballet books are always nice, and this one sounds really intriguing!

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Ricki said...

Love dance books.
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Aydrea said...

Love books about dance!!!

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Mare/TommyGirl said...

I'd love to win! Thank you for the giveaway.

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Danah said...

The cover is funky! I like it though.
This is my first time hearing about this book. I'd love to read it.

Thank you for the chance!


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Alicia said...

Really excited for this.

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Khyla said...

Thanks for the giveaway :)

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Maji Bookshelf said...

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Maji Bookshelf said...

Count me in!

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Hot Off the Shelves said...

This sounds like a good one. Please enter me.

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Erica said...

This sounds great!

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Lisa (Lisa's World of Books) said...

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