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Joan. Marush. A Biography.
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This is the story of Joan, a teenage American girl whose life was almost derailed by ballet obsession
and eating disorders. By moving to Paris in 1959 and hitchhiking all over Europe throughout most
of the 1960s, Joan succeeded in "finding herself " and discovering abilities and competencies she
hadn't previously been aware of. She chronicled her odyssey of self-realization in hundreds of letters
home describing her adventurous travels and the richness of her educational, artistic, and cultural
experiences in Paris. The letters ended with her return to "real life" in the United States in the 1970s,
but the narrative of her struggle to satisfy her unquenchable desire to dance continues in a series
of oral history interviews, which describe her transition from the lovely but subdued Joan to the
more dramatic Marush. And then, in 1980 Marush met and formed a lasting companionship-a
"duprass," to borrow Kurt Vonnegut's term-with the author of this biography, a reliable eyewitness
to Marush's subsequent forty-five happily-ever-after years as a 100%, to-the-core New Yorker who
could have been happy nowhere else.
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