Book description
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.
The author of five previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and
five collections of short stories, A. L. Kennedy's last novel,
Day
, was the 2007 Costa Book of the Year. She has twice been selected as
one of
Granta
's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards.
She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at
Warwick University.
