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The cruelty and poetic beauty of the bull-fight have captured the imagination of observers and readers for decades. No book popularized these images in America more than Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. His descriptions of this sport have been part of American notions of bull-fighting since its publication in 1932. In this definitive study of Hemingway's masterpiece on bull-fighting, Miriam Mandel addresses not only Hemingway's tome, but the bullfighting and the Spain of his time. Intended for readers who require information about the persons, animals, and cultural artifacts mentioned in his book, this volume offers several hundred entries, arranged alphabetically for easy access. Helpful cross-references lead the reader to other pertinent information. Names and nicknames are also noted and simplified for easy reference. A must for bull-fighting enthusiasts and Hemingway scholars alike.

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It would be easy to overlook Death in the Afternoon; most of us think of Hemingway as a writer of fiction; it would also be easy to overlook a bulky, substantial reference work devoted to Death in the Afternoon. Both oversights would be a mistake. Languages and Literature ...this ambitious and comprehensive volume helps explain one of the key enigmas of modern literature-Hemingway's unique style...Mandel's annotations will help us comprehend the depth of Hemingway's knowledge of art and politics, of life and style, of history and tauromachy. Even diehard aficionados will learn more than they might care to admit they didn't already know, thanks to Mandel's indefatigable research...Ambitious; relentlessly thorough; scholarly in the best and broadest sense; punctilious; extremely useful, no matter how many taurine merit badges you have; politically fearless and astute...; historically and geographically savvy; linguistically sophisticated-the work is virtually faultless...There is so much positive and positively useful material here that one must cheer for a job well done. North Dakota Quarterly, Fall 2003 Hemingway is a minimalist, full of allusions. Mandel traces them all, and her data expands the book and makes it ring with life, like the bullfight itself...No academic or public library should be without this guidebook, which is highly recommended for readers of all levels. Choice

It would be easy to overlook Death in the Afternoon; most of us think of Hemingway as a writer of fiction; it would also be easy to overlook a bulky, substantial reference work devoted to Death in the Afternoon. Both oversights would be a mistake. * Languages and Literature * ...this ambitious and comprehensive volume helps explain one of the key enigmas of modern literature-Hemingway's unique style....Mandel's annotations will help us comprehend the depth of Hemingway's knowledge of art and politics, of life and style, of history and tauromachy. Even diehard aficionados will learn more than they might care to admit they didn't already know, thanks to Mandel's indefatigable research...Ambitious; relentlessly thorough; scholarly in the best and broadest sense; punctilious; extremely useful, no matter how many taurine merit badges you have; politically fearless and astute...; historically and geographically savvy; linguistically sophisticated-the work is virtually faultless....There is so much positive and positively useful material here that one must cheer for a job well done. * North Dakota Quarterly, Fall 2003 * Hemingway is a minimalist, full of allusions. Mandel traces them all, and her data expands the book and makes it ring with life, like the bullfight itself...No academic or public library should be without this guidebook, which is highly recommended for readers of all levels. * CHOICE *

It would be easy to overlook Death in the Afternoon; most of us think of Hemingway as a writer of fiction; it would also be easy to overlook a bulky, substantial reference work devoted to Death in the Afternoon. Both oversights would be a mistake. Languages and Literature ...this ambitious and comprehensive volume helps explain one of the key enigmas of modern literature-Hemingway's unique style...Mandel's annotations will help us comprehend the depth of Hemingway's knowledge of art and politics, of life and style, of history and tauromachy. Even diehard aficionados will learn more than they might care to admit they didn't already know, thanks to Mandel's indefatigable research...Ambitious; relentlessly thorough; scholarly in the best and broadest sense; punctilious; extremely useful, no matter how many taurine merit badges you have; politically fearless and astute...; historically and geographically savvy; linguistically sophisticated-the work is virtually faultless...There is so much positive and positively useful material here that one must cheer for a job well done. North Dakota Quarterly, Fall 2003 Hemingway is a minimalist, full of allusions. Mandel traces them all, and her data expands the book and makes it ring with life, like the bullfight itself...No academic or public library should be without this guidebook, which is highly recommended for readers of all levels. CHOICE

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Miriam B. Mandel, former Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Literatures of Tel Aviv University, has published articles on Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others.Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995; paperback edition, 2001) and Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations (2008), both published by Scarecrow.

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