Overview

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. 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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Author:   A.L. Kennedy
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Yellow Jersey Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 10.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 16.70cm
Weight:   0.095kg
ISBN:  

9780224060998

ISBN 10:   0224060996
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   06 July 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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&quot; One of the best books of the year.&quot; - Jeanette Winterson <p>&quot; A strange and beautiful book.&quot; - Michael Ignatieff <p>&quot; 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.&quot; - Julian Barnes

An exploration of the bullfight in all its facets - be it sport, art form or stylized torture. The author (perhaps surprisingly, a prize-winning female novelist) discusses the obsessive pull of watching man and bull face death, the powerful sexual symbolism, and the theatricality of the choreographed spectacle. A maelstrom of ideas. (Kirkus UK)

Author Information

A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards - including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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