Solar Dance Paperback by Modris Eksteins

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2013-02-26)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307398604
• Item Weight: 453.6 grams
• Dimensions: 23.16 x 15.57 x 2.49 cm

An acclaimed historian of the 20th century illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today.

About the Author

MODRIS EKSTEINS is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto. His bestselling, acclaimed Rites of Spring was published in 9 countries, won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize and the Trillium Book Award and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Globe and Mail and The New York Times. Walking Since Daybreak was also a national bestseller, winner of the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and was named one of the Best Books of 2000 by The Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times and The Globe and Mail. The author lives in Toronto, ON.