Hemingway Book Give-away at The Matador World Premiere

Three hundred people at the South by Southwest premiere of "The Matador," a new U.S.-made documentary about spanish matador David Fandila, will get free copies of Ernest Hemingway's bullfighting tome, "The Dangerous Summer.

 

Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster and co-sponsor of the premier, will give out the books to the audience members at the door. The first 200 attendees at the Monday, March 10 premiere of "The Matador" will get copies of the book.

Another 100 copies of the book will go to the first audience members to appear at the 11 am show the following day, Tuesday, March 11, also in the Austin Convention Center.

Hemingway's "The Dangerous Summer," written in 1960 for Life magazine and released in book form in 1985, is an important and wonderful book," wrote William Kennedy in the New York Times. "Hemingway never wrote better," said Edmund Fuller in the Wall Street Journal.

"The Dangerous Summer" is an account of one intense summer in the careers of two notable, rival matadors. "The Matador" is an emotional film made over three years with David Fandila, "El Fandi," a spanish matador currently at the top of the profession.