Death in the Afternoon
  • Published: 31 December 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099909101
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99

Death in the Afternoon

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31 Dec 1994
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Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell to Arms.

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature.

Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.
  • Published: 31 December 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099909101
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise 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

V.S. Pritchett

Hemingway's style, at its best, is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descrptions of brutality

Guardian
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