Editions

On Bullfighting

  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey

  • ISBN: 9780224060998

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 167mm x 13mm x 105mm

  • Weight: 95g

  • RRP: £7.99

On Bullfighting

Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.

Acclaimed novelist A. L. Kennedy unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on. The result is a startling confrontation with her own, and mankind's, mortality.

  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey

  • ISBN: 9780224060998

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 167mm x 13mm x 105mm

  • Weight: 95g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • "One of the best books of the year"

    Jeanette Winterson

  • "On Bullfighting casts an unofficial eye over a world of male exploit; the public spectacles are treated with a fresh particularity, the inner landscapes of pain with an ardent, high-risk honesty"

    Julain Barnes

  • "Informative, minutely observed and beautifully written"

    Independent

  • "An ecclectic and fascinating cultural history"

    Observer

  • "A strange and beautiful book"

    Michael Ignatieff

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About the Author

A.L. Kennedy

A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

A.L. Kennedy

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