That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket
Autor Michael Hendersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2021
Observăm în That Will Be England Gone mai mult decât o cronică sportivă; este un omagiu adus unei lumi care pare să se transforme iremediabil. Michael Henderson, fost corespondent de cricket pentru Daily Telegraph și un fin observator al artelor, își folosește experiența de decenii în jurnalism pentru a documenta sezonul 2019 — ultimul bastion al cricketului tradițional înainte de introducerea formatului modern „The Hundred”. Găsim aici o perspectivă melancolică, dar vibrantă, asupra identității engleze, unde sportul este doar pretextul pentru o explorare culturală mai profundă.
Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Henderson împletește amintirile despre marii jucători de cricket, precum Fred Trueman sau Farokh Engineer, cu pasiunea sa pentru muzica clasică, arhitectura locală și poezia lui Philip Larkin. Cine a citit One Long and Beautiful Summer de Duncan Hamilton va aprecia aici o abordare similară a nostalgiei sezoniere, însă Henderson plusează cu o dimensiune artistică bogată, transformând fiecare deplasare la cluburile de provincie din Ramsbottom sau Chesterfield într-un eseu despre estetică și memorie. Spre deosebire de datele tehnice regăsite în Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019, acest volum oferă contextul emoțional și istoric al jocului, fiind scris cu o eleganță literară ce amintește de stilul lui Neville Cardus.
Deși autorul a mai explorat teme diverse în alte scrieri, precum istoria locală în The New Churchyard sau puterea iertării în No Enemy to Conquer, lucrarea de față reprezintă chintesența preocupărilor sale: legătura dintre peisaj, artă și tradiția sportivă. Este o lectură ritmată, elegiacă, ce ne poartă de la solemnitatea arenei Lord's până la atmosfera intimă a meciurilor școlare, totul sub semnul unei veri care marchează sfârșitul unei ere.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472132874
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este ideală pentru cititorul care caută în sport nu doar statistici, ci o experiență culturală completă. Câștigați o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care cricketul modelează peisajul social și artistic englez. Este o recomandare perfectă pentru cei care iubesc eseistica de calitate și vor să înțeleagă de ce acest sport este considerat o formă de artă, oferind o alternativă reflexivă la ritmul agitat al competițiilor moderne.
Despre autor
Michael Henderson este un reputat jurnalist britanic, originar din Lancashire, cu o carieră impresionantă în presa de prestigiu. A scris pentru publicații precum The Guardian, Observer, The Times și Daily Mail, remarcându-se în special ca specialist în cricket pentru Daily Telegraph. Dincolo de arena sportivă, Henderson este un fin critic cultural, contribuind constant cu articole despre arte și muzică pentru The Spectator și New Statesman. Această dublă specializare îi permite să abordeze sportul dintr-o perspectivă literară și estetică rară în jurnalismul contemporan.
Recenzii
Michael Henderson is one of the most knowledgeable writers there is about the summer game. In this vibrant chronicle of the 2019 cricket season, he travels around England taking the temperature of the sport he loves. The result is pure gold . . . The book is also a love poem to an England fast disappearing . . . For those who fear the worst for the sport they love, this is like cool, clear water for a man dying of thirst. It's barnstorming, coruscating stuff, and as fine a book about the game as you'll read for years
Philip Larkin's line "that will be England gone" is the premise of this fascinating book which is about music, literature, poetry and films as well as cricket. Henderson is that rare bird, a reporter with a fine grasp of time and place, but also a stylist of enviable quality and perception
Admirers of Neville Cardus and A. E. Housman will warm to Michael Henderson's elegy for an ideal England. A rich roast dinner of cricket, music, topography, nostalgia and anecdote, washed down with prose as smooth and satisfying as a pint of Otter Ale
Charming . . . a threnody for a vanished and possibly mythical England
Lyrical . . . [Henderson's] pen is filled with the romantic spirit of the great Neville Cardus . . . This
book is an extended love letter, a beautifully written one, to a world that he is desperate to keep alive for
others to discover and share. Not just his love of cricket, either, but of poetry and classical music and fine
cinema . . . A book that started out as an elegy for a changing game seems more poignant now
To those who love both cricket and the context in which it is played, the book is rather wonderful, and moving
It is about cricket but also about much more: landscape, place, poetry, music, national mythology . . . This is the book's authentic register, and it is haunted by loss
Englishness itself, as much as cricket, is the main theme of Michael Henderson's genre-melding That Will Be England Gone . . . extremely readable . . . often amusing . . . That Will be England Gone is part memoir, part sports book, part essay . . . Given that this may be a summer without leather and willow, and that coughing has become taboo, Henderson's book provides a much-needed literary-cricketing alternative: a beautiful clearing of the throat
In a work that now seems improbably prescient, that same sense of gazing at a disappearing world has been articulated with great skill and, most of all, great affection by Michael Henderson . . . The book - a paean to the sub-culture of county cricket, its supporters, its players, its observers, its writers, its pubs and its arenas - was completed before the coronavirus crisis struck but its premise seems more pertinent than
ever
A travelogue and a love letter to the festival and spa towns of England and in particular to the places where county cricket is played . . . Henderson writes beautifully about Cheltenham and Chesterfield and Trent Bridge in Nottingham, his favourite Test ground. You do not need to love cricket to feel the point
One of my favourite writers about cricket
Beautifully written piece of work . . . wonderful book - not just a sports book, which is why it is so good - is to be reminded, or even educated, of what it means to be English and of England's history
All good sports books are about more than just sport, and this anti-modern elegy to an old rural England takes in countless bypaths from Vienna to Ken Dodd . . . Erudite and occasionally beautiful
Erudite . . . genuinely beautiful
It would perhaps be a mistake to regard this as purely a cricket book. Each excursion to a cricket ground is preceded and accompanied by extensive digressions elsewhere. But the digressions are not wandering from the point, but carefully crafted scene-setting as Henderson provides the social, artistic and historical context for the cricket he witnesses. Rather than purely a cricket book, this is an elegy for a vanishing world with cricket as its framework
Wonderful elegy to a game that, way more than any other, defines our shared identity . . . a timely reminder
of what is missing from our lives in cricket's absence
Henderson has a gift for the telling phrase and illuminating anecdote
'Charming . . . a threnody for a vanished and possibly mythical England' Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times
Neville Cardus once said there could be no summer in England without cricket.
In That Will Be England Gone, Michael Henderson revisits much-loved places to see how the game he grew up with has changed since the day in 1965 that he saw the great fast bowler Fred Trueman in his pomp. He watches schoolboys at Repton, club cricketers at Ramsbottom, and professionals on the festival grounds of Chesterfield, Cheltenham and Scarborough. The rolling English road takes him to Leicester for T20, to Lord's for the most ceremonial Test match, and to Taunton to watch an old cricketer leave the crease for the last time. He is enchanted at Trent Bridge, surprised at the Oval, and troubled at Old Trafford.
'Cricket,' Henderson says, 'has always been part of my other life.' There are memories of friendships with Ken Dodd, Harold Pinter and Simon Rattle, and the book is coloured throughout by a love of landscape, poetry, paintings and music. As well as reflections on his childhood hero, Farokh Engineer, and other great players, there are digressions on subjects as various as Lancashire comedians, Viennese melancholy and the films of Michael Powell.
Lyrical and elegiac, That Will Be England Gone is a deeply personal tribute to cricket, summer and England.
'A travelogue and a love letter . . . You do not need to love cricket to feel the point' The Times
Descriere
Neville Cardus once said there could be no summer in England without cricket.
The 2019 season was supposed to be the greatest summer of cricket ever seen in England. There was a World Cup, followed by five Test matches against Australia in the latest engagement of sport's oldest rivalry. It was also the last season of county cricket before the introduction in 2020 of a new tournament, The Hundred, designed to attract an audience of younger people who have no interest in the summer game.
In That Will Be England Gone, Michael Henderson revisits much-loved places to see how the game he grew up with has changed since the day in 1965 that he saw the great fast bowler Fred Trueman in his pomp. He watches schoolboys at Repton, club cricketers at Ramsbottom, and professionals on the festival grounds of Chesterfield, Cheltenham and Scarborough. The rolling English road takes him to Leicester for T20, to Lord's for the most ceremonial Test match, and to Taunton to watch an old cricketer leave the crease for the last time. He is enchanted at Trent Bridge, surprised at the Oval, and troubled at Old Trafford.
'Cricket,' Henderson says, 'has always been part of my other life.' There are memories of friendships with Ken Dodd, Harold Pinter and Simon Rattle, and the book is coloured throughout by a love of landscape, poetry, paintings and music. As well as reflections on his childhood hero, Farokh Engineer, and other great players, there are digressions on subjects as various as Lancashire comedians, Viennese melancholy and the films of Michael Powell.
Lyrical and elegiac, That Will Be England Gone is a deeply personal tribute to cricket, summer and England.