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Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius | 
 enlarge | Author: Simon Wilde
Publisher: John Murray
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 33870
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0719569419
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780719569418
ASIN: 0719569419
Publication Date: April 17, 2008
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Condition: Brand New Unopened light shelf wear
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Wot? No index? November 13, 2007
G. L. Haggett (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Biographies necessarily stand or fall by the inherent interest of their subjects. Sporting biographies in turn tend to veer between the hagiography and the hatchet job.
Refreshing, therefore, to see a writer prepared to take a balanced but uncompromising look at the conflict between Shane Warne the cricketer and Shane Warne the man.
The book also considers the changes in cricket during Warne's career; the role of the media and of increased TV coverage in particular are analysed with great insight, as are the attendant increasing pressures on players and the growing awareness and importance of sports psychology.
A shame, then, that a publishing house of such standing appears to place little stock by production values; the proof-reading leaves something to be desired and the absence of an index is nigh on unforgivable.
Coupled with the occasionally clumsy expression, these factors prevent this being a five-star book. I await with interest its destiny at the William Hill Sports Book awards.
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