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. 'The great triumph of Beyond a Boundary is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society.'- Caryl Phillips, The New Republic first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend-probably the greatest social theorist of our times.'- Manning Marable, Journal of Sport & Social Issues Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestations of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket.'- E. 'Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. ' Beyond a Boundary is a 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

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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