On Bullfighting
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
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A. L. Kennedy's highly acclaimed reflections on the bloodiest of the blood sports - 'as artful as a matador's final pass' (Esquire).
Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.
Acclaimed novelist A. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on. The result is a startling confrontation with her own, and mankind's, mortality.
Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.
Acclaimed novelist A. L. Kennedy unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on. The result is a startling confrontation with her own, and mankind's, mortality.
One of the best books of the year -- Jeanette Winterson
On Bullfighting casts an unofficial eye over a world of male exploit; the public spectacles are treated with a fresh particularity, the inner landscapes of pain with an ardent, high-risk honesty -- Julain Barnes
Informative, minutely observed and beautifully written * Independent *
An ecclectic and fascinating cultural history * Observer *
A strange and beautiful book -- Michael Ignatieff
ISBN: 9780224060998
Dimensions: 167mm x 105mm x 13mm
Weight: 95g
192 pages