On Bullfighting by A. L. Kennedy (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385720815
ISBN-139780385720816
eBay Product ID (ePID)1780196
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn Bullfighting
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEssays & Travelogues, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Essays
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
AuthorA. L. Kennedy
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-060587
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal791.8/2
SynopsisAn 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 NumberGV1107.K45 2001
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- 22 Aug, 2022
Good book. Worth for anyone interested in learning basic principles of the bullfights
A good short book on the subject. Would have liked some small, color photographs to illustrate some of the chaptersVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
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