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Beyond A Boundary

Beyond A Boundary

By Cyril Lionel Robert James

Paperback | ISBN 9781784875398

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C L R James's infamously great 1963 cricket masterpiece - voted the third best sports book ever by the Observer - reissued in Vintage Classics for the Cricket World Cup 2019

'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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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781784875398
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Number of pages: 368
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 198
Depth (mm): 22

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