$25.62
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2019
Summary
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784875398 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784875392 |
| Author: | Cyril Lionel Robert James |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 262g |
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Critics Review
One of the finest and most finished books to come out of the West Indies
One of the finest and most finished books to come out of the West Indies * V. S. Naipaul *
One of the greatest books about sport, which means it is both about much more than sport – with James, who was born in Trinidad in 1901, writing about empire and immigration * i, Christmas Guide Guide 2025 *
Cyril Lionel Robert James
C L R James, historian, novelist, cultural critic and political activist, was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1901. In 1932 he joined his friend Learie Constantine in Britain, where he became cricket correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A central figure in the Pan-African movement and the struggle for colonial emancipation, he returned to Trinidad in 1958 in its run-up to independence. He later went back to London, where he died in 1989.
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