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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.One of the best books of the year
- Jeanette Winterson,
<i>On Bullfighting</i> 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,
A thrilling and thought-provoking read
- John Banville, Irish Times
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.
Bullfighting - the ultimate spectator sport.
Acclaimed novelist A. 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.