Beyond a Boundary

<div>This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic <i>Beyond a Boundary</i> celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.<p>Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by <i>Sports Illustrated<br></i><br><i>Beyond a Boundary</i> . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton Ivan Turgenev A. J. Liebling and Ernest Hemingway.-<b>Derek Walcott</b> <i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br>As a player James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. . . . [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket <i>Beyond a Boundary</i> (1963) James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme.-<b>Edward Said</b> <i>The Washington Post<br></i><br>A work of double reverence-for the resilient elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world.-<b>Whitney Balliett</b> <i>The New Yorker<br></i><br><i>Beyond a Boundary</i> is a book of remarkable richness and force which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world.-<b>Mark Naison</b> <i>The Nation<br></i><br>Everything James has done has had the mark of originality of his own flexible sensitive and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestations of life and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket.-<b>E. P. Thompson</b> author of <i>The Making of the English Working Class<br></i><br><i>Beyond a Boundary</i> is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend-probably the greatest social theorist of our times.-<b>Manning Marable</b> <i>Journal of Sport & Social Issues<br></i><br>The great triumph of <i>Beyond a Boundary</i> is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society.-<b>Caryl Phillips</b> <i>The New Republic</i></p></div>