Ernest Hemingway. First edition, second printing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. Both unclipped dust jacket, in a mylar wrapper, and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. dust jacket designed by the great Paul Bacon. No writing or markings found in this well-preserved edition, 228 pp. Introduction written by James A. Michener. Contains black/white photographs.
The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's first hand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances. At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers.
In 1959, Hemingway revisited Spain in part to see a series of bullfights and to write a short piece on his trip for Life Magazine. The result is this full-length documentary of his experiences following the classic rivalry of two of Spain's greatest matadors - Antonio Ordonez - and his brother-in-law Luis Miguel Dominguin, who recently came out of retirement to go mano a mano with Ordonez.
