Cardus
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This is writing every bit the equal of cardus himselfin the great romantic, award-winning author duncan hamilton demonstrates how cardus changed sports journalism for everamong those who venerated cardus were pg wodehouse, john arlott, harold pinter, jb priestley and don bradman' guardian neville cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his batyet cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renownwhile popularising cricket - while appealing, in cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusionsthe great romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden agebetween two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with wordsinfatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriagedaily mail 'hamilton is a worthy biographerand, astonishingly, the supreme stylist's aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attendedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreduncan hamilton is already a multiple award-winning sports writer, but it is hard to imagine he will write a better book than this superb, elegiac portrait of the sociable, feted, but ultimately unknowable, man who virtually invented modern sports writinghowever, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education' the times'with its verve, insight and generosity of sympathy, this is by some way the best full-length life of a cricket writer, perhaps even of any sports writeras much sublime writing comes from his keyboard as from cardus's pen
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