Double-Edged Sword

The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin

Bart Paul (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2020
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2232-9 (ISBN)

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The story of Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish American bullfighter who triumphed over prejudice and adversity as he achieved what no American had ever accomplished, teaching Ernest Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect.

Sidney Franklin (1903–76) was the last person you’d expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise son of a Russian Jewish cop, Franklin had an all-American boyhood in early twentieth-century Brooklyn, while hiding the fact that he was gay. A violent confrontation with his father sent him packing to Mexico City, where first he opened a business, then opened his mouth—bragging that Americans had the courage to become bullfighters. Training with iconic matador Rodolfo Gaona, Franklin’s dare spawned a legend.

Following years in small-town Mexican bullrings, he put his moxie where his mouth was, taking Spain by storm as the first American matador. Franklin’s 1929 rise coincided with that of his friend Ernest Hemingway’s, until a bull’s horn in a most inappropriate place almost ended his career—and his life.

Bart Paul illuminates the artistry and violence of the mysterious ritual of the bulls as he tells the story of this remarkable man, from life in revolutionary Mexico to triumphs in Spain, from the pages of Death in the Afternoon to the destructive vortex of Hemingway’s affair with Martha Gellhorn during the bloody Spanish Civil War.

This is the story of a gay man who triumphed over prejudice and adversity as he achieved what no American had ever accomplished, teaching even Hemingway lessons in grace, machismo, and respect.

Bart Paul is the author of the acclaimed High Country Noir series of novels: Under Tower Peak, called one of the ten best mysteries of 2013, Cheatgrass, and See That My Grave Is Kept Clean. He has also written documentaries on subjects as diverse as Masada and Nazi atrocities in Poland. Paul now lives in the ranching country of the Eastern Sierra’s California-Nevada border.

List of Illustrations

Introduction:The Alternative

Act One

1. The Bull

2. Que Viva Mexico

3. The Wisdom of the Aztec

Act Two

4. El Niño de la Synagoga

5. Thanks, Ma

6. Yanqui Flamenco

7. Death in the Afternoon –with Drinks and Dinner to Follow

8. To the Ear

9.Hard Times

Act Three

10. The Big Parade

11. A Fine Romance

12. The Beard

13. The Master Horn

14. The Sword

15. Separate Trails

16. Hemingway’s Gay Blade

17. The Alternativa

18. The New Man

19. Servalavari

20. Recuerdos

21. Sol y Sombra

Acknowledgments and Afterthoughts

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	14 photographs, 2 illustrations, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4962-2232-6 / 1496222326
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-2232-9 / 9781496222329
Zustand	Neuware