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What You Become in Flight Ellen O'Connell Whittet
What You Become in Flight
Ellen O'Connell Whittet
With a promising career in classical ballet ahead of her, Ellen O'Connell Whittet was devastated when a misstep in rehearsal caused a career-ending injury. Ballet was the love of her life. She lived for her moments under the glare of the stage-lights--gliding through the air, pretending however fleetingly to effortlessly defy gravity. Yet with a debilitating injury forcing her to reconsider her future, she also began to reconsider what she had taken for granted in her past. Beneath every perfect arabesque was a foot, disfigured by pointe shoes, stuffed--taped and bleeding--into a pink silk slipper. Behind her ballerina's body was a young girl starving herself into a fragile collection of limbs. Within her love of ballet was a hatred of herself for struggling to achieve the perfection it demanded of her. In this raw and redemptive debut memoir, Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores the silent suffering of the ballerina--and finds it emblematic of the violence that women quietly shoulder every day. For O'Connell Whittet, letting go of one meant confronting the other--only then was it possible to truly take flight.
| メディア | その他 N/A (不明なフォーマット) |
| リリース済み | 2020年8月2日 |
| ISBN13 | 9781662223723 |
| レーベル | Dreamscape Media |
| 寸法 | 200 × 200 × 20 mm · 350 g (重量(概算)) |
| 言語 | 英語 |