Matador

Name: Matador
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Barnaby Conrad
ISBN: 9781455103485

Author: Barnaby Conrad

Narrator: Barnaby Conrad

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/25/2005

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

The morning of Pacotes last fight, the city of Sevilla waits, heavy with anticipation. But Pacote finds he is afraid and fears disgrace in the ring. Time, once his friend, now presses him on to the moment when the gate opens and the first bull enters the ring.

About Barnaby Conrad

Barnaby Conrad is the author of twenty-five books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hemingway’s Spain, How to Fight a Bull, and Matador, which has sold more than three million copies. He is an artist and former bullfighter and American vice-consul in Spain, founder and codirector of the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference, and a native San Franciscan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donald on July 30, 2008

One of the two best novels I have read set in the world of bullfighting It fictionalizes the last corrida of the great Manolete.......more

Goodreads review by Svetlana on March 03, 2018

One of the best novels I have ever read. Wow! What a ride! I finished it and started rereading it. I am not ready to part from it yet.......more

Goodreads review by Aykut on December 20, 2016

Kitabın özellikle ilk yarısını sıkıcı buldum ve içine girmekte zorlandım. Ama isminden de anlaşılacağı üzere Matador Pakote'nin arenaya çıkıp boğalarla dans edişini anlatan ikinci yarıyı tek nefeste okudum! Bir filmin içinde gibiydim o kısımları okurken, heyecandan yüreğim çıkacaktı. Pakote boğaya:......more