{"product_id":"2026200017099-secondhand-the-dangerous-summer","title":"The Dangerous Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the blazing arenas of Spain, two legendary matadors — Antonio Ordóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín — waged a bitter rivalry that would come to define an era of bullfighting, and Ernest Hemingway was there to witness every breathtaking, blood-soaked moment. Originally commissioned by *Life* magazine in 1960, The Dangerous Summer chronicles Hemingway's return to Spain after a decade away, following the two rivals across the corridas of a long, intense summer season with all the passion and precision that made him one of the twentieth century's greatest prose stylists. Written with the same visceral immediacy as Death in the Afternoon, his earlier treatise on the art of bullfighting, this work immerses the reader in the pageantry, courage, and mortal danger of the ring, capturing a Spain still vivid with postwar tension and ancient tradition.\n\nPublished posthumously, The Dangerous Summer stands as both a testament to Hemingway's lifelong obsession with grace under pressure and a valedictory farewell to the world he loved most. His prose — spare, muscular, and deceptively simple — illuminates themes of rivalry, friendship, mortality, and the seductive allure of risk, drawing the reader ever deeper into a world where the line between triumph and tragedy is measured in inches. For those who know Hemingway only through his fiction, this work reveals the man behind the myth, restless and searching, still hunting for the perfect moment of truth in the afternoon sun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269348139227,"sku":"2026200017099-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/96d2adf4-4178-40b8-959c-b6fcd6b08083.png?v=1788999068","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017099-secondhand-the-dangerous-summer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}