Graham Thorpe RISING FROM THE ASHES First Edition Signed
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Graham Thorpe RISING FROM THE ASHES First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of RISING FROM THE ASHES, the autobiography of Graham Thorpe and published by CollinsWillow/ HarperCollins Publishers, London in 2005. Signed by Thorpe on the front endpaper. The 'Signed copy' strip is still attached. With number '1' on the copyright page.The book is in near fine condition (Clean black boards with silver lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the top edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Graham Paul Thorpe MBE is a former English cricketer who played for Surrey and England. A left-handed middle-order batsman and slip fielder, he appeared in exactly 100 Test matches. After retiring from all cricket at the end of the 2005 season, he moved to Sydney in 2005-06 to work with New South Wales as a batting coach and became their assistant coach in 2007-08. He was appointed Surrey's batting coach at the end of a disappointing 2008 season for the club and ECB national lead batting coach in October 2010. He has written a monthly column for the UK-based cricket magazine, SPIN World Cricket Monthly, since December 2006.
"Graham Thorpe is the finest batsman produced by this country in a generation. At the vanguard of world cricket for nearly 12 years, during which he reached a landmark century of Test caps, Thorpe played countless match-winning innings in both Test and one-day arenas, and helped transform england from also-rans to the battle-hardened, all-conquering team of today.
Not long ago, however, the national press were labelling him 'English cricket's most disturbed player': he had broken ranks by opting out of tours for family reasons, had several run-ins with the England management, and in 2001 returned early from lndia in a futile effort to save an already ruined marriage.
The following summer Thorpe was accused of betraying his country when he retired from international one-day cricket and then dropped out of cricket altogether, his personal problems plunging him towards a mental breakdown fuelled by alcohol and anti-depressants. He tried to make a comeback but it lasted less than a fortnight. The door to his Test career had, it seemed, been closed for ever.
With startling frankness Thorpe dissects his career in cricket and the inner recesses of his private life: the impact of his bitter divorce; the suicidal depression; how the death of Ben Hollioake pushed him towards religion; how his comeback Test century at the oval in 2003 resurrected his life and his career; and his fresh outlook with a new partner and child and as a supporter of the Fathers 4 Justice campaign.
He goes on to give a forthright account of how his controversial non-selection for the 2005 Ashes series forced his immediate retirement from international cricket. Hero or villain? Thorpe's compelling account of his life goes a long way towards unravelling the mysteries of one of the most enigmatic cricketers of recent times."
390 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs.
ISBN: 0 00 720596 1
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