Alice Simpson’s BALLROOM, set just before the year 2000, tells the story of an unforgettable mix of characters who come to the once glamorous but now shabby ballroom on New York’s Union Square to dance, to pretend, and to seduce, in this hunting novel that explores the private dreams they search for, both within and beyond the gilded halls of this now vanished universe to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)