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Książka Double-Edged Sword Bart Paul

Double-Edged Sword

The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin

Autor: Bart Paul
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: University of Nebraska Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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110.00 zł
Sidney Franklin (1903-76) was the last person you'd expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise s...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Bart Paul
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2009
strony
336
EAN
9780803211292
ISBN
0803211295
Enbook ID
04922323
Wydawca
University of Nebraska Press
Waga
562
Wymiary
149 x 223 x 28

Pełny opis

Sidney Franklin (1903-76) was the last person you'd expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise son of a Russian Jewish cop, Sidney had an all-American boyhood in early twentieth-century Brooklyn - while hiding the fact that he was gay. A violent confrontation with his father sent him packing to Mexico City, where first he opened a business, then he opened his mouth - bragging that Americans had the courage to become bullfighters. Training with iconic matador Rodolfo Gaona, Sidney's dare spawned a legend. Following years in small-town Mexican bullrings, he put his moxie where his mouth was, taking Spain by storm as the first American matador. Sidney's 1929 rise coincided with that of his friend Ernest Hemingway's, until a bull's horn in a most inappropriate place almost ended his career - and his life. Bart Paul illuminates the artistry and violence of the mysterious ritual of the bulls as he tells the story of this remarkable character, from Franklin's life in revolutionary Mexico to his triumphs in Spain, from the pages of "Death in the Afternoon" to the destructive vortex of Hemingway's affair with Martha Gellhorn during the bloody Spanish Civil War. This is the story of an unlikely hero - a gay man in the most masculine of worlds who triumphed over prejudice and adversity as he achieved what no American had ever accomplished, teaching even Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect.

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