Beyond a boundary: C.L.R. James

This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic<i>Beyond a Boundary</i>celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by<i>Sports Illustrated<br /></i><br />"<i>Beyond a Boundary</i>. . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."—<b>Derek Walcott</b>,<i>The New York Times Book Review<br /></i><br />"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. . . . [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket,<i>Beyond a Boundary</i>(1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme."—<b>Edward Said</b>,<i>The Washington Post<br /></i><br />"A work of double reverence—for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."—<b>Whitney Balliett</b>,<i>The New Yorker<br /></i><br />"<i>Beyond a Boundary</i>is<i></i>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."—<b>Mark Naison</b>,<i>The Nation<br /></i><br />"Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. 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."—<b>E. P. Thompson</b>, author of<i>The Making of the English Working Class<br /></i><br />"<i>Beyond a Boundary</i>is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend—probably the greatest social theorist of our times."—<b>Manning Marable</b>,<i>Journal of Sport &amp; Social Issues<br /></i><br />"The great triumph of<i>Beyond a Boundary</i>is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society."—<b>Caryl Phillips</b>,<i>The New Republic</i>