Eleven: We Burn Them in the Sun by Christian Ryan (.ePUB)
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Eleven: We Burn Them in the Sun by Christian Ryan
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Overview: A gripping eleven-sided biography and audacious re-reckoning of nonfiction’s velocities by the author of Golden Boy, voted Wisden Cricket Monthly’s ‘Best Cricket Book Ever’
‘Groundbreaking, brilliant and unforgettable. Christian has aimed to create a certain kind of work of art and he has pulled it off. It is one of those books that will give more and more to the reader each time they go back into it.’ – Malcolm Knox
Watk. Raja. Jane (i). Shirvan. Cricket – the way it brings emotion and life and pain and memory and regret all hauntingly and combustively to light. John. Jane (iii). Shivalkar. Men and women whose destinies don’t make sense.
Ask, was there a minute when the decline of West Indies cricket didn’t have to turn out that way? What can be gained poring over the crooked lines of lives forged by, or infiltrated by, cricket?
Hold fast to dreams that stay vivid by disappearing: on Newcastle’s streets, Darwin’s.
This book moves like no other with humour and verve and tragedy. Frank. RR. Vowles. Carmino.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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