Death in the Afternoon
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
ISBN: 9780099285021
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2000
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting
If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.
In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge, which fuelled his 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 best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality.' Guardian
ISBN: 9780099285021
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2000
Pages: 400
Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 24mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting
If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.
In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge, which fuelled his 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 best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality.' Guardian
