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England and Eternity : A Book of Cricket, Hardback Book

England and Eternity : A Book of Cricket Hardback

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A teasing but affectionate celebration of cricket through the ages, written by one of Ireland's greatest living critics.

Cricket is the strangest game. It features idealism, brutality, low comedy, high intelligence, luck and sheer bravery in equal measure – and often achieves the condition of art.

Declan Kiberd's remarkable book is a celebration of cricket through the ages, and of the peculiarities of the people who love and play it.

He evokes brilliantly what it is like to be 'out there' on the field of play.

Although the modern game is rooted in the gentle rural England described by LP Hartley and George Orwell, it has in its more modern versions come to reflect the industrial power and intermittent violence of modern life.

England and Eternity is a teasing but affectionate study of the genius of the English people as seen from a postcolonial perspective – and of the game which was one of their richest, oddest and most lasting gifts to the wider world.

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