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Book Title
Connie : the Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine
Publication Name
Connie
Title
Connie
Subtitle
The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine
Author
Harry Pearson
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
ISBN-10
0349140391
EAN
9780349140391
ISBN
9780349140391
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Release Date
05/07/2018
Release Year
2018
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Height
1in
Item Length
7.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Cricket, Sports
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Winner of the MCC Book of the Year Award His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer of his age (1928-1939) when he played Test cricket for the West Indies and club cricket for Nelson. Few who saw Constantine in action would ever forget the experience. As well as the cricketing genius that led to Constantine being described as 'the most original cricketer of his time', Connie illuminates the world that he grew up in, a place where the memories of slavery were still fresh and where a peculiar, almost obsessive, devotion to 'Englishness' created a society that was often more British than Britain itself. Harry Pearson looks too at the society Constantine came to in England, which he would embrace as much as it embraced him: the narrow working-class world of the industrial North during a time of grave economic depression. Connie reveals how a flamboyant showman from the West Indies actually dovetailed rather well in a place where local music-hall stars such as George Formby, Frank Randle and Gracie Fields were fêted as heroes, and how Lancashire League cricket fitted into this world of popular entertainment. Connie tells an uplifting story about sport and prejudice, genius and human decency, and the unlikely cultural exchange between two very different places - the tropical island of Trinidad and the cloth-manufacturing towns of northern England - which shared the common language of cricket.

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Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group The Limited
ISBN-10
0349140391
ISBN-13
9780349140391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038286432

Product Key Features

Book Title
Connie : the Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine
Author
Harry Pearson
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cricket, Sports
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Gv915
Reviews
At last Constantine has found a biographer capable of telling his magnificent story - Harry Pearson has written a beguiling work that does full justice to this wonderful sportsman and most honourable of men
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
796.358092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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