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Playing the Game Hardcover - 1991

by Ian Muruma

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London England: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Hardback. Neville Cardus suspected that K. S. Ranjisinhji, the legendary Indian prince who played cricket for Sussex and MCC at the turn of the century, was 'perhaps a dream, all dreamed on some midsummer's night long ago'. This book is the autho's absorbing and richly entertaining re-invention of Ranji's life - a novel imagining itself a biography. It reveals a man, confused and desperate to find an identity for himself - an adopted English gentleman, an adopted Indian prince - sometimes both, in the end, probably neither. he died in 1933, his balding pet parrot at his side. This book is about Englishness, cultural identity, impersonation and pretending, a book about real people, imagined people, and those who don't know the difference. 234 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.
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  • Title Playing the Game
  • Author Ian Muruma
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jonathan Cape, London England
  • Date 1991
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 067769
  • ISBN 9780224027588 / 0224027581
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91185862
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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