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A powerful novel of the infamous Western outlaw and his killer: “The best blend of fiction and history I’ve read in a long while” (John Irving). By age thirty-four, Jesse James was already one of the most notorious and admired men in America. Bank robber, train bandit, gang leader, killer, and beloved son of Missouri— James’s many epithets live on in newspapers and novels alike. As his celebrity was reaching its apex, James met Robert Ford, the brother of a James gang member—an awkward, antihero-worshipping twenty-year-old with stars in his eyes. The young man’s fascination with the legend borders on jealous obsession: While Ford wants to ride alongside James as his most-truste...
I have a bad feeling about this, thought Walter – but everyone told him his mission was a piece of cake, fly to a hostile alien planet – rescue a family – and leave – the planet is poorly defended nothing can go wrong. The worst thing about being negative is that when you are right, there is no consolation. Walter gets stranded a very long way from anywhere and faces a deadly journey to get home on a small ship. The only good thing is that his girlfriend is with him – or is it? She is incredibly stubborn maybe he will be stuck with his ex. The bad thing is the lack of food – starvation is a possibility.
A young supernatural being grew up in a community and discovered his gift. He found out about elite secret organizations employing beings like him. Some organizations wanted to recruit him, while others targeted him. He teamed up with a top administration to defend the world from evil spirits.
'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true' Sunday Times C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?