Matador

It is the morning of Pacote's last fight, the finale of a great career. 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.©1952 Barnaby Conrad (P)2003 Blackstone Audiobooks

Piece of history

Dated but deft sketch of bullfighting as seen from the inside.

Decently narrated by the author Barnaby Conrad, a colorful American bullfighter, artist, diplomat and international bon vivant.

After the vast international success of this title he settled into running a colorful nightclub and Jazz bar in the North Beach quarter of San Francisco.

This is a mid-Twentieth Century Hemingway-esque literary artifact.