The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket
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The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket by Ian Mcdonald
With poems, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, and cricket journalism, this account is a multifaceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the outside world. From the global playing fields to the bumpier village fields and sugar estates, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism, and, in the 1970s and 1980s, changed forever the nature of the game.
Ian McDonald was born in Trinidad in 1933. He read History and Cambridge and was a gifted tennis player and captained both the Cambridge and the West Indies Davis cup team. He first went to Guyana in 1955 and spent his working life there, as CEO of Bookers. He is the author of four poetry collections, and editor of two anthologies of West Indian writing. He now lives in Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845230548 |
| ISBN 10 | 184523054X |
| Title | The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket |
| Author | Ian Mcdonald |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peepal Tree Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 450 |
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