Stroke of Genius
$25.14
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2017
Summary
Australia’s favourite cricket writer on how one player - and his photograph - changed a sport and a nation.
Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend - revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the records.
In life, Trumper was Australia’s first world beater - at his peak just after Federation, he was not just a cricketer but an artist of the bat, the genius of a new era, a sy…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143785965 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143785966 |
| Author: | Gideon Haigh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, contributing to over a hundred newspapers and magazines, and publishing thirty-five books. His works include:
- The Office: A Hardworking History, winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
- On Warne, shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
- Certain Admissions, winner of the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime.
- Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.
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