Death And The Sun.(Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain)(Brief article)(Book review)

From: The Bookwatch | Date: January 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Death And The Sun

Edward Lewine

Houghton Mifflin

222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116

www.hmco.com

061826325X $24.00 1-800-225-3362

Few books are written these days on the politically-incorrect (in the USA anyway) art of bullfighting, so it's refreshing to see a modern matador reporter's account of the sport and his participation in it in Death And The Sun: A Matador's Se...

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