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Autobiography
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288 pages
Published
September 10th 1984
by Hamish Hamilton Ltd
(first published 1947)
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A dusty tome from the university library, published 1947. What a different tone of voice he has. I didn't understand half of his cultural references but liked the ride. He eventually made a name for himself writing a high-brow cricket column. But his best love was music criticism and he regarded his writing on that topic as superior. I liked reading about what a resolutely square peg he was. His relatives dead, he lived on his own from the age of twelve and read what he decided were the great wo
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this by the master of cricket writers had me enthralled throughout.
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Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE (3 April 1888 – 28 February 1975) was an English writer and critic, best known for his writing on music and cricket. For many years, he wrote for The Manchester Guardian. He was untrained in music, and his style of criticism was subjective, romantic and personal, in contrast with his critical contemporary Ernest Newman. Before becoming a cricket writer, he had
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