The Dangerous Summer

The Dangerous Summer is a book written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1985, which describes the rivalry between bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother in law Antonio Ordóñez during the "dangerous summer" of 1959. It has been described as Hemingway's last book. The Dangerous Summer is an edited version of a 75,000 word manuscript Hemingway wrote between October 1959 and May 1960 as an assignment from LIFE Magazine. Hemingway summone... more

The Dangerous Summer is a book written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1985, which describes the rivalry between bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguín and his brother in law Antonio Ordóñez during the "dangerous summer" of 1959. It has been described as Hemingway's last book. The Dangerous Summer is an edited version of a 75,000 word manuscript Hemingway wrote between October 1959 and May 1960 as an assignment from LIFE Magazine. Hemingway summoned his close friend Will Lang Jr. to come to Spain to deliver the story to LIFE Magazine. The book was edited from the original manuscript by his American publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. A 30,000 word extract from the script was published in three consecutive instalments in LIFE during September 1960. The book charts the rise of Antonio Ordóñez (the son of Cayetano Ordóñez about whose exploits in the bull ring and fighting technique Hemingway had written in The Sun Also Rises) across a season of bullfights during 1959. During a fight on May... less