Beyond a Boundary

This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic *Beyond a Boundary* celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by *Sports Illustrated* "*Beyond a Boundary* . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."-**Derek Walcott**, *The New York Times Book Review* "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, *Beyond a Boundary* (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme."-**Edward Said**, *The Washington Post* "A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."-**Whitney Balliett**, *The New Yorker* "*Beyond a Boundary* 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."-**Mark Naison**, *The Nation* "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."-**E. P. Thompson**, author of *The Making of the English Working Class* "*Beyond a Boundary* is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend-probably the greatest social theorist of our times."-**Manning Marable**, *Journal of Sport & Social Issues* "The great triumph of *Beyond a Boundary* is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society."-**Caryl Phillips**, *The New Republic*