The New Matadors
Author | : Ken W. Purdy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Automobile racing |
ISBN | : 9780090882601 |
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Author | : Ken W. Purdy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Automobile racing |
ISBN | : 9780090882601 |
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476770077 |
The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama—as in fight after fight—the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers.
Author | : Edward Lewine |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0544364279 |
Part sports writing, part travelogue, this is a portrait of Spain, its people, and their passion for a beautiful yet deadly spectacle. A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There's nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not a blood sport but an art, an ancient subculture steeped in ritual, machismo, and the feverish attentions of fans and the press. Lewine explains Spain and the art of the bulls by spending a bullfighting season traveling Spanish highways with the celebrated matador Francisco Rivera Ordónez, following Fran, as he’s known, through every region and social stratum. Fran’s great-grandfather was a famous bullfighter and the inspiration for Hemingway’s matador in The Sun Also Rises. Fran’s father was also a star matador, until a bull took his life shortly before Fran’s eleventh birthday. Fran is blessed and haunted by his family history. Formerly a top performer himself, Fran’s reputation has slipped, and as the season opens he feels intense pressure to live up to his legacy amid tabloid scrutiny in the wake of his separation from his wife, a duchess. But Fran perseveres through an eventful season of early triumph, serious injury, and an unlikely return to glory. A New York Times Editor’s Choice Praise for Death and the Sun “May be the most in-depth, incisively written guide to bullfighting available in English. Every drunken sophomore riding the rails to Pamplona this summer ought to keep a volume in his backpack.” —New York Times Book Review “Lewine demonstrates knowledge of and respect for the matador’s dangerous profession. E also explores the history of Spaine and the charms and contradictions evident within the country’s exceptionally varied cultures and people.” —Boston Globe
Author | : Cristina Garcia |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439181756 |
A novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country in the midst of political turmoil.
Author | : Steve Perry |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Meet Emile Antoon Khadaji -- The man who sparked a revolution. A classic Matador space opera, and the the book that started it all.
Author | : Alex Archer |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459238567 |
An invitation too irresistible to refuse from the Museum of Cadiz leads archaeologist Annja Creed to the sun-drenched southern coast of Andalucia, Spain. In a region rich in Moorish and Roman ruins, she leaps at the chance to join a dig across the Bay of Cadiz, where she unearths a bronze bull statue that makes the entire trip worth every minute. Until the day after her discovery, when she sees the same artifact beside the body of a dead Spaniard, killed by the estocada, the final sword thrust used by bullfighters to bring down the bull. Whoever killed the man left clear signs of having taken something. And yet the bronze bull remained. What was so valuable the murderer chose it over a priceless artifact? How had her find come into this dead man's hands? With few leads and a growing body count, Annja's investigation takes her through a colorful world of flamenco and bullfighting to a renowned matador and an illegal—and deadly—collection of Visigoth votive crowns.
Author | : Anne Lambelet |
Publisher | : Page Street Kids |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781624146565 |
Maria loves tea parties and dancing and wearing her hair in pigtails, but more than anything in the world...Maria loves churros. She’ll do anything to get her hands on more of them, even enter a bullfight. To win, she must outsmart the other matadors who don’t think she’s big enough, fast enough, or strong enough. With determination and creativity, spunky Maria will dance her way to victory—and into readers’ hearts. Complemented by distinct, expressive illustrations, this charming story shows that you don’t have to fight to win, and you might even end up with more than you were hoping for.
Author | : Horst H. Baumann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Automobiles, Racing |
ISBN | : 9780090882601 |
Author | : Steve Perry |
Publisher | : Ace Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780441013616 |
Three people--Lazlo, a battle-scarred extreme martial arts warrior; Cayne, an ambitious journalist who will stop at nothing to get a story; and Ellis, a billionaire who longs for something money cannot buy--will have their fates decided in the brutal arena of Musashi Flex. Original.
Author | : Stephen Holmes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2007-04-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113946504X |
The Matador's Cape delves into the causes of the catastrophic turn in American policy at home and abroad since 9/11. In a collection of searing essays, the author explores Washington's inability to bring 'the enemy' into focus, detailing the ideological, bureaucratic, electoral and (not least) emotional forces that severely distorted the American understanding of, and response to, the terrorist threat. He also shows how the gratuitous and disastrous shift of attention from al Qaeda to Iraq was shaped by a series of misleading theoretical perspectives on the end of deterrence, the clash of civilizations, humanitarian intervention, unilateralism, democratization, torture, intelligence gathering and wartime expansions of presidential power. The author's breadth of knowledge about the War on Terror leads to conclusions about present-day America that are at once sobering in their depth of reference and inspiring in their global perspective.