The Dangerous Summer

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 Dominguin the second and his brother in law Antonio Ordonez. The two bullfighters wanted to prove who was better by each trying to kill the more bulls than the other during 1959.

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1960 - Ernest Hemingway - Luis Miguel Dominguin the second - Antonio Ordonez - 1959

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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.

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