Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (And Then Ruined It)
This hilarious story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket takes readers from the early awkward days as a fat boy growing up in a Brighton sweet shop to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates still chasing the sweet spot. In this story, cricket offers a shelter from life's irksome realities and a place in which to quietly dream. That place is a peculiarly English arcadia of occasional wondrous beauty, forests of comforting statistics, and the endless life-affirming rituals of defeat, humiliation, and disappointment—the perfect net practice for life.
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Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (And Then Ruined It)
This hilarious story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket takes readers from the early awkward days as a fat boy growing up in a Brighton sweet shop to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates still chasing the sweet spot. In this story, cricket offers a shelter from life's irksome realities and a place in which to quietly dream. That place is a peculiarly English arcadia of occasional wondrous beauty, forests of comforting statistics, and the endless life-affirming rituals of defeat, humiliation, and disappointment—the perfect net practice for life.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780091901516 |
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Publisher: | Crown Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 04/03/2008 |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
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