Black dance
By: Nancy Huston
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780670068364; 9780143192404
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Screenwriters; Fiction
Work titles: Danse noire
Description: Screenwriter Milo Noirlac is dying. He lies in the dark of his hospital room, voices from Milo's past and present - real and imagined - swirl about his head, each taking on the rhythm of his favourite Brazilian fight-dance, the capoiera. Seated next to him, Milo's partner, bumptious director Paul Schwartz, coaxes Milo through his life story, from the abuse he suffered as a foster child to his lost heritage - his great-grandfather's ostentatious wealth. As Milo narrates, his story becomes the couple's final screenplay, the movie that will be their masterpiece.
Notes: Translation of: Danse noire.

Issued also in electronic format.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction