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Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon

by Ernest Hemingway

Publisher Jonathan Cape

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    Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition / first printing published by Cape in 1932. A very good book in a very good unclipped wrapper with some light chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Rare UK first edition.

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A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and literature. Seen through his eyes, bullfighting becomes an art, a richly choreographed ballet, with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace and cunning.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman.


His economical and understated style - which he termed the iceberg theory - had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.


He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

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