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" Perhaps one of the best biographies I have ever read, this book tells the story
of the fabled Spanish bullfighter Manuel Benitez “El Cordobes”! Born in strict poverty,
this youngser defied all the odds in becoming perhaps the most famous modern day "toreador"!
His phenominal rise to fame is truly something out of a novel! El Cordobes, desperate,
illiterate, starving had one dream, to become a bullfighter. And the odds were stacked
heavily against him. This noble profession certainly had no room for such a peasant!
But the heavens were looking out for him and rise he did. With the help of an influential
patron, El Cordobes succeeded, and with a fervor almost unparalleled. This is no “dull
biography” but a gripping one, complete with all the ingredients of a first-rate novel!
"
Bill Hobbs, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- blue collar worker
Gender/Class story?
- story of lower class
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- sports figure
Age:
- 20's-30's
Biography of famous person?
Yes
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Spain
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- encouraged
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 51%-75% of book
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