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Title: The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He Deserves by Mark Sundeen ISBN: 0-7432-3616-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Praise for Sundeen's Making of Toro!
Comment: Cleverly plotted and well-executed, packed with dancing, ironic prose and endearing characters, Mark Sundeen's The Making of Toro was an excellent read. Fun, light and true, this short excursion across the border into Mexico's bullfighting culture had me bent over and sniveling with laughter. I smile to think of it.
This book is an easy-going, comedic exploration into the sad impotence of modern American masculinity. Set against the backdrop of the bloody bullring and the grit of Mexico City, the reader sees what the protagonist himself is not able to recognize - that he is not his alter-ego Travis La France, the great bullfighter and irresistable romantic - that he is in fact simply an author and a man, accident-prone and lovable, trying to set the record straight about his misunderstood first novel, and doing his best to amend himself for being the man that he is, and not the man he would like to be.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Remarkable New Writer
Comment: "The Making of Toro" is one of those books (like, say, "A Confederacy of Dunces") that may not make much of a splash when it first appears, but that is destined to be passed from hand to hand and reader to reader until a small cult builds around it and its author.
For starters, this book is flat-out hilarious. But it also marks the arrival of a writer who is bound to make a huge impact. Comparisons with Eggers and Sedaris aren't out of line: Sundeen blurs the line between memoir and fiction with the requisite postmodern relish. "Toro" is a tale told by a narrator so charmingly unreliable and self-deluded that we actually can't help rooting for him.
But the writer Sundeen most resembles is probably Mark Twain (seriously!). In "Toro" (and in his earlier book "Car Camping"), Sundeen shows the same dry wit, the same trust that the reader will actually get the joke, and the same faith that sometimes the naive, deluded bumbler might see truths that more worldly types do not. And, like Twain, Sundeen conceals genuine depth beneath light humor. "Toro" begins as a comedy, but by the end it deepens into a surpringly poignant coming of age story.
So buy this book--it's funny and original and thoroughly enjoyable--then pass it on.
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Title: Car Camping: The Book of Desert Adventures by Mark Sundeen ISBN: 0688174604 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Women and the Bullring by Muriel Feiner, Robert Ryan ISBN: 0813026296 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us from Seeing by Darian Leader ISBN: 158243235X Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth by Daniel Glick ISBN: 1586481541 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Bay of Souls : A Novel by Robert Stone ISBN: 0395963494 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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