{"product_id":"on-bullfighting-9780385720816","title":"On Bullfighting","description":"An Anchor Books Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can't refuse-an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy and her readers from the living room of her Glasgow flat to the \u003ci\u003eplazas del toros\u003c\/i\u003e of Spain and inside the mesmerizing, mystifying, brutal, and beautiful world of the bullfight. Here the sport is death: \u003ci\u003ematadors\u003c\/i\u003e (literally \"killers\")\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eare men and, increasingly, women who, not unlike the Roman gladiators before them, provide a spectacle to the crowd, a dance in which their own death is as present as that of the bull. Wonderfully relaying the elements of the sport, from the breeding of the bulls and the training of the matadors to the intricate choreography of the bullfight and its strange connection to the Inquisition, Kennedy meditates on a culture that we may not countenance or fully understand but which is made riveting by the precision of her prose and the passion and humor of her narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385720816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 1033\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/12\/2001 pg. 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2001 pg. 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2001 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2001 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/25\/2014 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"A. L. Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870711115957,"sku":"9780385720816","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2e231263-51ad-4199-af77-2c28716c9047.jpg?v=1733241119","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-bullfighting-9780385720816","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}