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The Greatest Cricket Book ever?
Review date: 2009-06-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
Unlike most cricket books, this is not simply about cricket in isolation. It is a book about cricket and life itself, and the life of the author in particular. Every cricketer should read it as no cricket book has greater claim to being the finest ever written than "Beyond a Boundary".
The greatest cricket book ever written
Review date: 2008-09-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
This is the greatest cricket book ever written. It's amazing. Because it's not about cricket. It's about life, about class, about politics, about colonialism, about racism. Because James realises you can't talk about cricket without talking about these things. As he says, "what do they know of cricket that only cricket know?"
Cricket books seem to work better than many other sport books because the game has only just started to change. There's been no new equipment to revolutionise the game, no huge influxes of obscene money (until this year); Bradman would have scored runs by the hatful today, and Warne would have taken wickets by the bucketload then. Which is lovely and means that this book feels almost as relevant now as when it was written.
If you know a cricket fan (or a sports fan, for that matter) who hasn't read this book, buy it for them. They will thank you
Lives up to its reputation
Review date: 2005-11-30 Rating: 10 out of 10
Beyond a Boundary reached number 3 in the Observer Sport Monthly’s poll of the best fifty sports books of all time. It is burdened with enormous praise; amongst the quotes included on the cover are: ‘To say “the best cricket book ever written” is pifflingly inadequate praise’ and ‘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.’
The praise is justified. The only way that this is not the best cricket book ever written is if you do not consider it as a cricket book. It is beautifully crafted, transcending the genre: an engaging combination of cricket book, personal memoir and political and cultural commentary. There are other very good books about cricket but this is something more than that. It is a cricket book, a history book, a sociology book and more.
CLR James is a fascinating man: widely travelled, spending long periods in England and the USA as well as Trinidad, an important writer and journalist, a politically active Marxist, instrumental in getting Frank Worrell appointed captain of the West Indies team. The book covers a wide range of subjects including his childhood in Trinidad; great cricketers he has known and watched; Caribbean politics amongst others. For cricket lovers one of the beautiful things about the book is that James loves cricket, he appreciates it as an art form. He possesses the clarity of thought and the prose to convey this love and appreciation to the reader.
In places the book shows its age (it was written in 1963); it is very much of its time: a product of the anti-colonial struggle, and the emergence of West Indies cricket as a serious challenge to the domination of England and Australia. In some places events have overtaken some of his observations and some of the language jars. It is still a fantastic book – amazingly insightful and interesting.
This is a book that no genuine cricket lover should be without.
Fascinating
Review date: 2004-01-12 Rating: 10 out of 10
James challenges classification himself. A marxist with a fascination for the establishment game of cricket and other establishment features - the English public school and characters like WG Grace.
He writes in an engaging style, he has a keen eye for detail and he weaves politics into any theme in an effortless and skillful way.
Read this and the more recently published Letters from London.
Great stuff.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
C.L.R. James
Recording label: Yellow Jersey Press
Manufacturer: Yellow Jersey Press
EAN: 9780224074278
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 796
ISBN: 022407427X
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 368
Publication date: 2005-07-07
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)
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