The short history of a prince
Original title: The Short History of a Prince
first published 1998 Anchor Books, 1999 349 pages
Set in Jane Hamilton's signature Midwest, The Short History of a Prince is the story of Walter McCloud and his ambition to become a great ballet dancer. With compassion and humor, and alternating between Walter's adolescent and adult voices, the novel tells of Walter's heartbreak as he realizes that his passion cannot make up for the innate talent that he lacks. Introduced as a child to the genius of Balanchine and...
Where to get it
Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title
This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.
Change library
How it reads
Your log
What readers call it
No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.
Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.
Content warnings
Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.
No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.
Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.
Editions we hold
Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.