Vintage Classics Death In The Afternoon

Hemingway, Ernest

£9.99

Hemingway’s passion for Spain and the bullfight is renowned. This book contains some of the finest short stories Hemingway ever wrote, inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot, violent afternoons.

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Publish Date: 05/10/2000

Description

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 best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 281 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 21 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

343

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

791.820946 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K