Graham Thorpe
Rising from the Ashes
Published on 1. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-00-733002-7 (ISBN)
Description
Graham Thorpe's achievements on the cricket field contrasted wildly with his personal problems, where drink and depression combined to send him spiralling off the rails. This is his brutally honest life story, including his dramatic retirement from Test cricket, and updated to include England's 2005 Ashes win, and his new coaching career.
Reviews / Votes
'An absorbing read' The Sunday Times'Seldom have I read a more revealing book about the psychological disintegration of a sportsman...immeasurably superior to the usual ghosted autobiographies' Observer Sport Monthly
'A searing story, told with unflinching honesty' Guardian
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
40 col plates (16pp), Index
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
125 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-733002-7 (9780007330027)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
08/2012
1st Edition
HarperSport
€8.99
Available for download
Person
Graham Thorpe was born in August 1969. A lifelong middle-order batsman for Surrey CCC, he scored a century on his England Test debut against the Australians in 1993, played 100 Tests and scored 16 Test centuries. He retired from cricket in the summer of 2005. Graham Thorpe died in August 2024.
Simon Wilde is the chief cricket writer on the The Sunday Times.
Simon Wilde is the chief cricket writer on the The Sunday Times.