<![CDATA[The Flamenco Academy]]>

false <![CDATA[The Flamenco Academy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174009102m/352973.jpg 352973 3 From the author of the widely praised The Yokota Officers Club, a superbly alive novel about two young American women caught up in the fevered excitement of the flamenco revival sweeping the Southwest. The place is Albuquerque. Cyndi Rae Hrncir, called Rae, seventeen and shy, is twice spellbound, first by high school bad girl Didi (“Dirty Deeds”) Steinberg, already embarked on a search for stardom, then by a devastatingly handsome young flamenco guitarist, Tomás Montenegro. Soon the girls are in college, where they abandon themselves to the disciplines and demands of the university’s flamenco academy and to the hypnotic storytelling of their teacher, Doña Carlota, Tomás’s great-aunt. While never losing the insistent beat of the dance, Doña Carlota mesmerizes her students with the complexly embroidered story of her childhood growing up among the cave-dwelling Gypsies of Andalusia. She initiates them into the traditions, the rhythms, and the steps of flamenco puro, with its central imperative: “Dame la verdad”—Give me the truth. Locked in a volatile triangle and driven by obsession—Didi’s with stardom, Rae’s with Tomás, Tomás’s with his mysterious heritage—these three emerge as the brightest stars on the New World flamenco scene, while secrets and desires, longings and betrayals pulse just beneath the glittering surface of their compelling performances. A sense of passion and danger has always surrounded flamenco. In The Flamenco Academy, Sarah Bird delivers a novel with a sense of history and character that matches the drama of the dance it so brilliantly celebrates. 1568139 2006 The Flamenco Academy total:193|5:1|4:1|3:1|2:1|1:0| 193 714 293 60 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 19:13:56 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 14:23:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 12:04:15 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 05:11:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jul 29 18:13:32 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 18:37:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 27 14:27:00 -0800 2007 Mon Aug 11 00:26:24 -0700 2008
A strong weaving of the culture of flameno, past and present, with a coming of age tale, or more aptly - a coming to one's own.
I enjoyed the entire story so much that I slowed down near the end, thin...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 27 11:08:55 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 11:16:54 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 10:17:49 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 10:20:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 07 21:17:16 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 21:17:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 17:13:06 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 20:09:21 -0800 2008 The Flamenco Academy is a busy novel. First, we have the friendship between Rae and Didi, girls who bond after meeting at the doctor's office when both of their fathers have cancer. They survive highschool and go on to the univesity, into a flamenco program. Rae is smitten with a flamenco guitari...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 22:01:01 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 22:02:23 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 14:40:58 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 14:47:07 -0800 2008 novel about 'friendship betrayal and flamenco as somekind of a common denominator . story weaves into francos spain in granada and sevilla as well as albuquerque and its flamenco scene in the end of the nineties. pitiful main characters made me want to put the book down many times...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 18:13:22 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 18:14:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 18:41:02 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 18:42:26 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 14:39:33 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 14:40:57 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 19:19:27 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 19:20:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 16 15:28:56 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:29:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 22 18:17:53 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 18:18:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Feb 15 17:06:31 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 17:08:31 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun May 17 06:12:39 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 06:13:28 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Aug 05 20:40:12 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 20:40:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 16:00:13 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 16:33:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=352973