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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2001
- ISBN
- 9780385720816
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385720815
ISBN-13
9780385720816
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1780196
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Bullfighting
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Essays & Travelogues, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Essays
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-060587
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
791.8/2
Synopsis
An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can't refusean opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting. The result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy and her readers from the living room of her Glasgow flat to the plazas del toros of Spain and inside the mesmerizing, mystifying, brutal, and beautiful world of the bullfight. Here the sport is death: matadors (literally "killers") are men and, increasingly, women who, not unlike the Roman gladiators before them, provide a spectacle to the crowd, a dance in which their own death is as present as that of the bull. Wonderfully relaying the elements of the sport, from the breeding of the bulls and the training of the matadors to the intricate choreography of the bullfight and its strange connection to the Inquisition, Kennedy meditates on a culture that we may not countenance or fully understand but which is made riveting by the precision of her prose and the passion and humor of her narrative., An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can't refuse-an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting. The result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy and her readers from the living room of her Glasgow flat to the plazas del toros of Spain and inside the mesmerizing, mystifying, brutal, and beautiful world of the bullfight. Here the sport is death: matadors (literally "killers") are men and, increasingly, women who, not unlike the Roman gladiators before them, provide a spectacle to the crowd, a dance in which their own death is as present as that of the bull. Wonderfully relaying the elements of the sport, from the breeding of the bulls and the training of the matadors to the intricate choreography of the bullfight and its strange connection to the Inquisition, Kennedy meditates on a culture that we may not countenance or fully understand but which is made riveting by the precision of her prose and the passion and humor of her narrative.
LC Classification Number
GV1107.K45 2001
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- 22 Aug, 2022
Good book. Worth for anyone interested in learning basic principles of the bullfights
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