Jonathan Beckman
Not Just Cricket
Netherland
By Joseph O’Neill
Fourth Estate 247pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
Cricket is a game for those with lots of time on their hands. This may be one of the reasons it never took off in the USA: it requires a more studied temperament than the go-get-’em swagger of the American Dreamer. Yet surprisingly, and quite successfully, Joseph O’Neill has discovered in the game a means of envisaging and re-imagining America’s relation to the rest of the world in the twenty-first century.
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