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- Book Synopsis
- 'A book that is about vulnerability, failure, chance, fate, the nature of memory, and the fleeting moments that start like any other day but become sliding doors that close behind you with a chilling finality...in its imaginative scope, its daring, its ambition and its skill, it stands apart' Jon Hotten, Wisden Cricket Monthly Watk. Raja. Jane (i). Shirvan. Cricket - the way it brings emotion and life and pain and memory and regret all hauntingly and combustively to light. John. Jane (iii). Shivalkar. Men and women whose destinies don't make sense, scattered across eras and continents, their stories a miraculous tapestry of near misses, strange turns and quiet, unglamorous devotion. Frank. RR. Vowles. Carmino. From the freakish minute that might have prevented the slow decline of West Indies cricket to the jazz trombonist blocked from the England side, Christian Ryan, award-winning author of Golden Boy, reconstructs forgotten, fragile moments with breathtaking care. The result is a wildly ambitious, compulsively readable exploration of the strange, luminous ways cricket shapes a life, sizzling with humour and verve and tragedy.
- About The Author
- Christian Ryan is the author of Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and Golden Boy, winner of the Cricket Book of the Year and voted by Wisden Cricket Monthly the 'best cricket book ever'. He lives in Melbourne.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781805466710
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books, (06 August 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 mm
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