Cricket, Lovely Cricket?: An Addict's Guide to the World's Most Exasperating Game - Brossura

Booth, Lawrence

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9780224079150: Cricket, Lovely Cricket?: An Addict's Guide to the World's Most Exasperating Game

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ISBN 10: 0224079158 ISBN 13: 9780224079150

Casa editrice: Yellow Jersey, 2009

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Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle. Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider the questions that crop up on a daily basis but rarely receive a satisfactory answer. What are the players really like? What is the secret of sledging? Why get so worked up about the Ashes? Why all the clich�s? And how did India take over the world?

Taking the reader to the heart of a game that seems more capable than any other of bewitching its followers, this is a captivating look at the way cricket has become what it is today - and what, given a fair wind, it might be like in the future.

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Recensione:

"It is a great virtue in a cricket writer, the ability to flourish a polished anecdote or a droll quotation like a man embellishing an engaging conversation... Anything [Booth] writes is going to be worth reading" (Wisden)

"Engaging... a delight" (Peter Wilby Observer)

"One of England's funniest and most engaging cricket writers" (Independent)

"Lawrence Booth has put together a sports book like no other" (Daily Express)

"Wry, affectionate, irreverent and full of delicious anecdotes" (Metro)

Descrizione del libro:

The funniest cricket book you'll read this year, by one of the game's brightest writers.

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