- Hardcover: 376 pages
- Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd; 1st ed. edition (May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854107143
- ISBN-13: 978-1854107145
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 830,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Matthew Engel, Wisden Cricket Monthly
'One of the best cricket biographies I have ever read ... a superb book'
New Statesman
'Gideon Haigh pursues his extraordinary subject with a breadth of awareness rare in the sports-biog trade'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is definitely as good a biography as you could hope to read. The period detail and historical background, such as Iverson's early career as an Estate Agent and then his involvement as a soldier in WW2 set the foundations for his unlikely success on the cricket field. His rapid rise and almost as quick return to obscurity is a story handled perfectly by Haigh, arguably the best cricket writer around.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jack Iverson's story is Roy-of-the-Rovers stuff. The tale of the mystery bowler who comes from nowhere to win a test is not uncommon in fiction, but in this case it actually happened. Haigh's book is a well researched biography and makes entertaining reading. There are a couple of bits of 'padding' but it is well worth the read.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is one of the most interesting tales of sporting history, the freakish man who went on to play test cricket for Australia by creating a whole new way of bowling.
It's only a shame that the book didn't live up to the legend of Jack Iverson.
I've read much of Gideon Haigh's writing in the past, and have found some of it excellent.
He was often struggling in this book in being able to come up with enough recollections of Iverson, and with little media reporting available and no diaries etc of his early life, Haigh seemed to continuously go off onto tanegents of psychological analysis, theory and quoting from some bizarre works that seemed to me to have little obvious to do with the subject.
Saying that, I enjoyed some of the recollections that were used of what was undoubtedly a tortured genius, and what is ultimately a very sad end to the life of Iverson comes through in his daughter's comments about him.
This was worth reading, if it was perhaps too easy to put down [always a bad sign!], but ultimately I was left unsatisfied by this biography.
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