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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
2018-07-05
Utmärkelser
Long-listed for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017 (UK); Long-listed for Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2018 (UK)
Förlag
Abacus
Illustrationer
16pp black-and-white
Dimensioner
196 x 124 x 25 mm
Vikt
272 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780349140391

Connie

The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine

av Harry Pearson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2018-07-05
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Winner of the MCC Book of the Year Award His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer of his age (1928-1939) when he played Test cricket for the West Indies and club cricket for Nelson. Few who saw Constantine in action would ever forget the experience. As well as the cricketing genius that led to Constantine being described as 'the most original cricketer of his time', Connie illuminates the world that he grew up in, a place where the memories of slavery were still fresh and where a peculiar, almost obsessive, devotion to 'Englishness' created a society that was often more British than Britain itself. Harry Pearson looks too at the society Constantine came to in England, which he would embrace as much as it embraced him: the narrow working-class world of the industrial North during a time of grave economic depression. Connie reveals how a flamboyant showman from the West Indies actually dovetailed rather well in a place where local music-hall stars such as George Formby, Frank Randle and Gracie Fields were fted as heroes, and how Lancashire League cricket fitted into this world of popular entertainment. Connie tells an uplifting story about sport and prejudice, genius and human decency, and the unlikely cultural exchange between two very different places - the tropical island of Trinidad and the cloth-manufacturing towns of northern England - which shared the common language of cricket.
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At last Constantine has found a biographer capable of telling his magnificent story - Harry Pearson has written a beguiling work that does full justice to this wonderful sportsman and most honourable of men -- Peter Oborne * Daily Mail * an excellently researched and sensitively handled account of Constantine's life and impact beyond the game. He was "a 'Champagne cocktail' cricketer - effervescent but with a kick" and half a century on, his story has lost none of its fizz * ESPN.com * Harry Pearson is an author with an aversion to uninteresting sentences. Connie is a constantly engaging study -- Giles Smith * The Times * Cricket fans will cherish . . . and Harry Pearson 's admirable Learie Constantine biography Connie -- Huw Richards * Guardian * A beautiful book * New European *

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Harry Pearson was born and brought up on the edge of Teesside. He is the author of eight works of non-fiction. The Far Corner - A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football, was runner-up for the William Hill Prize and has been named as one of the Fifty Greatest Sports Books of All Time by both the Observer and The Times. He wrote a weekly sports column in the Guardian from 1996 to 2012, and won the 2011 MCC/Cricket Society Prize for his book about Northern club cricket, Slipless in Settle. He lives in Northumberland.

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