Mosaic
Subtitle: memoirs
By: Lincoln Kirstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-  -- Childhood and youth; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Ballet -- Biography
Description: Mosaic: Memoirs, Lincoln Kirstein's long-awaited autobiography, is a compelling, often highly subjective evocation of his astonishing youth. The book's scenes move from the old mansions of Brahmin Boston to the waterfront bars of Brooklyn, George Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, and the brothels of Marrakesh. It culminates with thrilling suspense in 1933, when Kirstein visits Paris, hoping to lure George Balanchine to the United States.

Kirstein shapes his numinous memories into the story of a young man's quest to fuse his various roles into a unified self. Mosaic is the epic history of his ultimately triumphant search for a vocation. As a chapter in the growth of modernism, and as a contribution to cultural history - and the history of assimilation - this superbly written, humorous, and candid book is unique and invaluable.
Notes: Includes index.