Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins - Rilegato

Praise for Somewhere

"Jerome Robbins is the great subject of American theatrical biography—self-contradictory, self-hating, arrogant and terrified and gifted almost beyond compare—and Amanda Vaill has done him justice. I can't think of a better full-length portrait of an American choreographer or director, and I can't imagine a better book about Robbins ever being written."
—Terry Teachout, drama critic, The Wall Street Journal
"Amanda Vaill has written an epic biography-remarkable in scope and meticulous in detail. She explores the energizing worlds of Broadway, the ballet and Hollywood from the 1940s through 2OOO and she paints a vivid picture of the mercurial Jerome Robbins, master choreographer and director of such legendary musicals as West Side Story and Fiddler On the Roof. Vaill is especially insightful about Robbins's frenetic private life—he loved both men and women with equal passion; how he juggled his dozens of relationships while creating masterpiece after masterpiece in theatre and ballet is just part of this amazing story."
—Patricia Bosworth, author of Montgomery Clift and Diane Arbus: A Biography.
"Exactly ten degrees north of terrific' was the verdict on Jerome Robbins's first ballet, and the description holds as well for this masterful, culturally astute biography. Amanda Vaill brings Robbins and the dance equally and irresistibly to life on the page. A sheer delight."
—Stacy Schiff, author of Véra: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov and A Great Improvisation

"As she did in her biography of Gerald and Sara Murphy (Everybody Was So Young, 1998), the author takes what seems like a shopworn subject and refreshes it with her discerning eye... All the Robbins biographies have their merits, but this empathetic and accessible take is the one most likely to appeal to general readers."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A critically sophisticated biography that's as compulsively readable as a novel."
—Publishers Weekly (starred)