Spun Out: Shane Warne the Unauthorised Biography of a Cricketing Genius - Couverture souple

Barry, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 055215489X ISBN 13 : 9780552154895

Editeur : Corgi Books, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shane Warne is a cricketing genius. At first there were nerves and chubbiness. Then came vicious spitting legbreaks, followed by fame and flippers. For a long while there were women, then a bookmaker, then diet pills, then more women - and headlines, always headlines. Now he has come out the other end, his bluff and bluster and mischief and innocence somehow intact. The man who in 2000 was rated among the five greatest cricketers of the 20th century was, in 2005, bowling better than ever.

When Shane Warne likened his life to a soap opera he was selling himself short. His story is part fairytale, part pantomime, part hospital drama, part adults'-only romp, part glittering awards ceremony. He has taken a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match prize in a World Cup final and been the subject of endless press speculation. He was the first cricketer to reach 600 Test wickets. He has swatted more runs than any other Test player without making a hundred, and is probably the wiliest captain Australia never had. He has revived the art of legspin and electrified the game

For all that, Warne's greatest feat is perhaps his latest. Returning from a one-year ban for swallowing forbidden diuretics, he swept aside 26 Sri Lankan batsmen in three Tests, and the following year scalped an astonishing 40 wickets in a thrilling Ashes series where he alone seemed to stand between England and victory.

Shane Warne is the best bowler the world has ever seen. He is a sportsman with an extraordinary God-given talent, a magician who mesmerises his opponents. He is also a kid who won't grow up and a man whose personal life teeters between tragedy and farce. Spun Out is his story, guts and glory, warts and all.

Quatrième de couverture :

A warts and all biography of a legend in more ways than one.

Shane Warne is without doubt one of the top cricketers in the world today but Spun Out doesn't merely catalogue his averages or describe every ball he has bowled.Nor is it exclusively about sex and sensation.It is a riveting portrait of the man who is known as a walking paradox: a sportsman with a God-given talent; a magician who mesmerizes his opponents; and a kid who won't grow up with a personal life that teeters between tragedy and farce.

From his childhood in Melbourne to the days when he alone seemed to stand between England and a famous Ashes victory in 2005, Shane Warne's is an extraordinary story of cricketing genius, which is part fairytale, part pantomime, part sheer hypnotic talent, part glittering awards ceremony - all guts and glory.

'A revealing biography about everyone's favourite Day-Glo Australian, the birds, boozing and drugs - it's all in here' Nuts Magazine

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Corgi Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 055215489X
• ISBN 13: 9780552154895
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 512