Beyond a Boundary (Five Star Paperback) - Softcover

C.L.R. James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852427329 ISBN 13: 9781852427320

Publisher: SERPENT'S TAIL, 2000

Synopsis

('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 'To say the best cricket book ever written is piffingly inadequate praise. A mental landscape triangulated by literature, socialism and cricket represents an ideal we should all aspire to, and this ennobling and beautifully written book should be read by anyone with the slightest interest in any one of the above.' Guardian)

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestions of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."—E. P. Thompson

About this edition

• Publisher: SERPENT'S TAIL
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1852427329
• ISBN 13: 9781852427320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288