"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. "Beyond a Boundary isa book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world."-Mark Naison, The Nation "A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."-Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme."-Edward Said, The Washington Post "As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."-Derek Walcott, The New York Times Book Review should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.
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