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Beyond A Boundary

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 2nd May 2019
Dimensions: w 123mm h 192mm d 28mm
Weight: 265g
ISBN-10: 1784875392
ISBN-13: 9781784875398
Barcode No: 9781784875398
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'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true' Sunday Times C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

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One of the finest and most finished books to come out of the West Indies * V. S. Naipaul *