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The Test: A Novel de Nathan Leamon

The Test: A Novel

Autor Nathan Leamon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2019

Descoperim în The Test o confruntare care depășește granițele terenului de sport: tensiunea dintre datoria publică față de o națiune aflată în așteptare și fragilitatea interioară a unui om aflat la limita epuizării. Nathan Leamon construiește o narațiune în care miza ultimului meci din seria The Ashes devine fundalul unei explorări intime despre prietenie, paternitate și curajul de a te încrede în propriile instincte atunci când ești singur împotriva tuturor. Romanul reușește să surprindă nu doar tehnica sportului, ci și acea stare suprarealistă a vieții de sportiv profesionist, unde presiunea este constantă și adesea mută.

Reținem precizia cu care autorul, el însuși un analist de performanță pentru echipa națională, transpune dinamica de vestiar și strategia din teren în literatură. Dacă The Amazing Test Match Crime de Adrian Alington v-a captivat prin umorul și structura clasică a unui meci de cricket ca formă de narațiune, The Test extinde această experiență în direcția unui realism psihologic profund. Spre deosebire de lucrarea sa anterioară, Hitting Against the Spin, care analiza mecanismele interne ale sportului dintr-o perspectivă tehnică, acest roman folosește datele experienței sale pentru a oferi carne și sânge personajelor. Stilul este alert, dar presărat cu momente de introspecție candidă, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra sportului de înaltă performanță — departe de idilismul jocurilor de club, direct în inima arenei unde fiecare mișcare este analizată sub lupă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472129536
ISBN-10: 1472129539
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: n/a
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o incursiune autentică în culisele sportului profesionist. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă onestă asupra presiunii psihologice la care sunt supuși liderii, totul într-un ritm narativ ce oglindește intensitatea unui meci decisiv. Este o lectură despre responsabilitate și umanitate, ideală pentru fanii de beletristică contemporană care apreciază realismul detaliului tehnic împletit cu emoția pură.

Descriere

'Engaging and enjoyable . . . as probing and as penetrative as a Jimmy Anderson opening spell . . . This is no ordinary novel by no ordinary novelist' Sunday Times

'A fine addition to the painfully thin oeuvre of modern fictional works about cricket' Mike Atherton, The Times

'Outstanding' Mail on Sunday

'If all you know is cricket, then cricket will break you . . .'

It is the final Test match of The Ashes. A nation expects, and the rest of the cricketing world is watching.

Fast-paced, humorous and candid, The Test follows the battles on and off the field as stand-in England captain, James McCall, tries to get his exhausted team across the finish line. Along the way, his story becomes one of fatherhood, friendship and trusting yourself when no one else will.

Nathan Leamon's love letter to Test cricket is that rare thing: a novel that captures the feel and flavour of professional sport from the inside - the good, the bad and the simply surreal.

Not since J. L. Carr's classic A Season in Sinji has there been a novel that quite captures the spirit of the game.

Included in Wisden Cricket Monthly's Finest Cricket Books Ever Written

Recenzii

Engaging and enjoyable . . . as probing and as penetrative as a Jimmy Anderson opening spell . . . This is no ordinary novel by no ordinary novelist
Outstanding first novel . . . The book deserves a readership beyond the narrow circle of cricket buffs. The characterisation is excellent, and the writing has a crispness from which novelists with more literary pretensions could learn
An ambitious warts-and-all peek into the inner sanctum of the England dressing room . . . a fine addition to the painfully thin oeuvre of modern fictional works about cricket . . . You will have realised that this is no romantic take on professional sport, rather a faithful one. Leamon weaves the strands together expertly, finding moments to teach and inform readers about the endless fascination of the five-day game, while the narrative of the final Test of the Ashes series rumbles along to its epic, heartfelt rather than Hollywood, conclusion
It's that authenticity, a feel for the cadences and limits of the vernacular of professional cricketers, and for their daily routines, that Leamon makes most vivid . . . Leamon is excellent too on what comes next, the existential nature of batting that offers the game its psychological pivot . . . Leamon has had a direct line into this authenticity, and it takes a writer to bring it out . . . I hope Nathan Leamon writes more
Brave and humane . . . authentic reflection of life inside a Test match dressing room . . . a work of fiction possessing an authenticity that can only come from experience . . . There are many ways of approaching this book. All are valid and all are rewarding . . . This freshman novelist has dug deep into fresh turf. He has taken a subject that most people thought too technical for fiction . . . The Test is, as it were, the real McCall
I loved reading this book. It grabbed my attention from the outset and held it right up until the end. The feel of the dressing room, the thoughts, doubts and emotions that affect even the best competitors, and the descriptions of the life of an international cricketer are all hauntingly familiar
Nathan Leamon's ambitious and gripping novel has the ring of truth about it - as befits a voice coming from a detached place within the England dressing room
There is no novel that captures first class professional cricket: the village green, yes, club games, yes, but not the real top end stuff. Indeed, I have never been convinced that such a fiction is even do-able. Well, Nathan Leamon's The Test settles the argument
It is the final Test match of The Ashes. A nation expects, and the rest of the cricketing world is watching.

Fast-paced, humorous and candid, The Test follows the battles on and off the field as stand-in England captain James McCall tries to get his exhausted team across the finish line. Along the way, his story becomes one of fatherhood, friendship and trusting yourself when no one else will.

Nathan Leamon's love letter to Test cricket is that rare thing: a novel that captures the feel and flavour of professional sport from the inside - the good, the bad and the simply surreal.

Not since J. L. Carr's classic A Season in Sinji has there been a novel that quite captures the spirit of the game. You will never watch cricket in the same way again.