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Death and the sun : a matador's season in the heart of Spain / Edward Lewine.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewine, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bullfights--Spain.
- Bullfights.
- Spain.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
- Summary:
- Profiles a season on the bullfighting circuit through the experiences of celebrated matador Francisco Rivera Ordoñez, as he faces tremendous pressure to live up to his family's and his society's expectations.
- Contents:
- A Short Note on Morality
- Prologue: Fran
- The Challenge Accepted
- A Man, A Bull, A Small Town
- The Former Phenom
- A Tragedy in Three Acts
- The Season Begins
- The Struggle
- Melons, Bitter and Sweet
- Afternoons of Responsibility
- The Melons Opened
- The Outsider
- Sun and Shadow
- The Little Venom
- Section Seven
- Different Paths
- An Inherited Fortune
- Death in the Sun
- Peons
- Craftsmen
- They Eat Horses, Don't They?
- A Lapse in Concentration
- Running the Bulls
- Papa
- Dry Dock
- The Kid
- A Traveling Season
- The Supreme Act
- First-Class Standards
- Good Luck, Bad Luck
- All the Roads Home
- Master of Masters
- In the Blood
- How to See Them.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 061826325X
- 9780618263257
- 9780618872305
- 0618872302
- OCLC:
- 58386286
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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