![]() ![]() ![]() (Hamilton was herself trained as a dancer.) Prince is a schematically boxy book, a bit too tightly choreographed dialogue is often more declamatory than realistic. ![]() Back then, Walter was in love with Mitch, his ballet school’s best male dancer Mitch was dating Susan, the class prima ballerina Susan fell in love with Daniel and around this pas de quatre, the extended McCloud corps de ballet - parents, aunts, neighbors, cousins - beat time steadily. The story toggles between 1972, when Walter McCloud is an Illinois teenager devoted to ballet (that prince in the title is the star of The Nutcracker) and obsessed with his own budding homosexual desires to the point of ignoring his older brother, Daniel, who is dying of cancer, and 1996, when Walter is a 38-year-old high school teacher still somewhat baffled by life. Coming after Ruth and A Map of the World, which dealt with accusations of child molestation in a child-care center, The Short History of a Prince (Random House, $23) is more muted than Hamilton’s previous two books, less emotionally climactic, but nonetheless lovely in its appreciation of the resilience of family. ![]()
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