'For those who fear the worst for the sport they love, this is like
cool, clear water for a man dying of thirst. It's barnstorming,
coruscating stuff, and as fine a book about the game as you'll read
for years' Mail on Sunday 'Charming . . . a threnody for a vanished
and possibly mythical England' Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times
'Lyrical . . . [Henderson's] pen is filled with the romantic spirit
of the great Neville Cardus . . . This book is an extended love
letter, a beautifully written one, to a world that he is desperate
to keep alive for others to discover and share. Not just his love
of cricket, either, but of poetry and classical music and fine
cinema' The Times 'To those who love both cricket and the context
in which it is played, the book is rather wonderful, and moving'
Daily Telegraph 'Philip Larkin's line 'that will be England gone'
is the premise of this fascinating book which is about music,
literature, poetry and architecture as well as cricket. Henderson
is that rare bird, a reporter with a fine grasp of time and place,
but also a stylist of enviable quality and perception' Michael
Parkinson Neville Cardus once said there could be no summer in
England without cricket. The 2019 season was supposed to be the
greatest summer of cricket ever seen in England. There was a World
Cup, followed by five Test matches against Australia in the latest
engagement of sport's oldest rivalry. It was also the last season
of county cricket before the introduction in 2020 of a new
tournament, The Hundred, designed to attract an audience of younger
people who have no interest in the summer game. In That Will Be
England Gone, Michael Henderson revisits much-loved places to see
how the game he grew up with has changed since the day in 1965 that
he saw the great fast bowler Fred Trueman in his pomp. He watches
schoolboys at Repton, club cricketers at Ramsbottom, and
professionals on the festival grounds of Chesterfield, Cheltenham
and Scarborough. The rolling English road takes him to Leicester
for T20, to Lord's for the most ceremonial Test match, and to
Taunton to watch an old cricketer leave the crease for the last
time. He is enchanted at Trent Bridge, surprised at the Oval, and
troubled at Old Trafford. 'Cricket, ' Henderson says, 'has always
been part of my other life.' There are memories of friendships with
Ken Dodd, Harold Pinter and Simon Rattle, and the book is coloured
throughout by a love of landscape, poetry, paintings and music. As
well as reflections on his childhood hero, Farokh Engineer, and
other great players, there are digressions on subjects as various
as Lancashire comedians, Viennese melancholy and the films of
Michael Powell. Lyrical and elegiac, That Will Be England Gone is a
deeply personal tribute to cricket, summer and England.
General
| Imprint: |
Constable
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
May 2021 |
| Authors: |
Michael Henderson
|
| Dimensions: |
196 x 124 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4721-3287-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-4721-3287-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781472132871 |
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