A review by happy_hiker
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton

2.0

The story of Walter, going back and forth between his teen years, when he is aspiring to be a ballet dancer but is really not very good, and the present, when he leaves his job selling dollhouse furniture in NYC to become an English teacher in small town Wisconsin. In the childhood winter he is cast in a crappy production of the Nutcracker in Rockford (while his friends star in the show in Chicago), his brother struggles through terminal illness and Walter has his first homosexual experience. The family summer home on a Wisconsin Lake finds it way into both decades, as does his friendship with Susan (one of the ballet stars). This book was OK, it moved along OK, the story was OK, but it isn’t something I would rush out to recommend to a friend. I have enjoyed other books by this author.