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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAND WINNER OF THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
Duncan Hamilton is already a multiple award-winning sports writer, but it is hard to imagine he will write a better book than this superb, elegiac portrait of the sociable, feted, but ultimately unknowable, man who virtually invented modern sports writing...This is writing every bit the equal of Cardus himself- Daily Mail
''Hamilton is a worthy biographer... as much sublime writing comes from his keyboard as from Cardus''s pen.'' The Times
''With its verve, insight and generosity of sympathy, this is by some way the best full-length life of a cricket writer, perhaps even of any sports writer.'' Guardian
Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker ''made music'' and ''spread beauty'' with his batBetween two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words.
In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus'' words to people who ''didn''t know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord''s''- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions
Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus'' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible educationInfatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriage. And, astonishingly, the supreme stylist''s aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attended.
Yet Cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renownThe Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age.
| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 400 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2020-07-02 |
| ISBN | 9781473661851 |
Artikelnummer
2982662
EAN
9781473661851
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