Bullfighting – the ultimate spectator sport. Acclaimed novelist A. L. Kennedy unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on. The result is a startling confrontation with her own, and mankind's, mortality.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:A. L. Kennedy war born in Dundee in 1965. Her first collection of stories, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, won the Saltire Award for Best First Book, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and the Mail on Sundy/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has also published a novel, Looking for the Possible Dance, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and a second collection of stories, Now That You're Back. In 1993 she was chosen as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. So I Am Glad was joint-winner of the 1995 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives and works in Glasgow.
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