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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.



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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

On Bullfighting. A. L. Kennedy

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/6/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780224060998, 978-0224060998
      ISBN10: 0224060996

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      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

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