Double-Edged Sword: The Many Lives of Hemingway's Friend, the American Matador Sidney Franklin

by Bart Paul

Book Overview

Sidney Franklin (1903-76) was the last person you'd expect to become a bullfighter. The streetwise son of a Russian Jewish cop, Sidney 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 he opened his mouth--bragging that Americans had the courage to become bullfighters. Training with iconic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803211295
• ISBN13: 9780803211292
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"