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The Great Romantic - Cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Hardcover)
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The Great Romantic - Cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Hardcover)
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WINNER OF WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 THE SUNDAY
TIMES BESTSELLER 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 bat. Between 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 education. Infatuations 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 renown. The Great Romantic uncovers
the dark enigma within a golden age.
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