What I Love About Cricket

One Man's Vain Attempt to Explain Cricket to a Teenager who Couldn't Give a Toss

Sandy Balfour (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2010
Ebury Press (Verlag)
978-0-09-192732-5 (ISBN)

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A beginner's guide to the game of cricket. It tells of the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. It is of interest to those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in the first place.

What I Love About Cricket is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his sixteen-year-old daughter's new boyfriend - the skateboarding boy wonder - is the reluctant pupil.

This beginner's guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is a love letter addressed both to
those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in
the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed, very funny and as much about fathers
and daughters, love and life, as it is about cricket.

Sandy Balfour plays and watches a lot of cricket. In his spare time he is a journalist, author and social activist. He is chair of the UK's leading Fairtrade chocolate company and has written four previous books including the critically acclaimed Vulnerable in Hearts and Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8). He lives in London with his girlfriend and their three children.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.6.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Gewicht	198 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	0-09-192732-3 / 0091927323
ISBN-13	978-0-09-192732-5 / 9780091927325
Zustand	Neuware