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Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway
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Description for Death in the Afternoon
Paperback. Shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and the knowledge which fuelled the authors passion for Spain and the bullfight. This book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZX; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 326.
Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.
'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death'
This is Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. Here are the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge, that fuelled Hemingway's passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.
'Hemingway's style, at its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random House Gro
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099285021
SKU
V9780099285021
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About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, ... Read more
Reviews for Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality
Guardian
The most readable and the most nearly exhaustive account of the Spanish Bullfight that we have
Guardian
The most readable and the most nearly exhaustive account of the Spanish Bullfight that we have