The Dangerous Summer

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The Dangerous Summer is a 1960 book written by Ernest Hemingway. In it, Hemingway describes, with his own words, the real-life bullfighting rivalry that took place the year before between legendary bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín the second and his brother in law Antonio Ordóñez. The two bullfighters wanted to prove who was better by each trying to kill the more bulls than the other during 1959.

Because of his illnesses, Ernest Hemingway was not able to get his novel to the publishers. Therefore, he had his wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, summon his friend, LIFE Magazine Bureau Head Will Lang Jr., to leave Paris and come to Spain. Hemingway persuaded Will Lang Jr. to let him print the manuscript, along with a picture layout before it came out in hardcover. Although not a word of it was on paper, Ernest agreed to the proposal. The first part of story appeared in LIFE Magazine on September 5, 1960. The other installments were printed on the following issues of LIFE.


Ernest Hemingway Books
Novels: The Torrents of Spring | The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) | A Farewell to Arms | To Have and Have Not | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Across the River and Into the Trees | The Old Man and the Sea | Adventures of a Young Man | Islands in the Stream | The Garden of Eden
Non Fiction: Death in the Afternoon | Green Hills of Africa | The Dangerous Summer | A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961 | Under Kilimanjaro
Short Story Books: Three Stories and Ten Poems | In Our Time | Men Without Women | Winner Take Nothing | The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | The Essential Hemingway | The Hemingway Reader | The Nick Adams Stories | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway | The Collected Stories
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