Bowling Was Superfine, the PB: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket

by Stewart Brown

With poems, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, and cricket journalism, this account is a multifaceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the outside world. From the global playing fields to the bumpier village fields and sugar estates, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184523054X
• ISBN13: 9781845230548
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"