Doesn’t
Fit
Into
Any
Writing
Tradition
“Sebaldian…”
“Christian! Bravo! You are the Kurt Vonnegut of cricket literature!”
“The Dr Johnson of cricket literature.”
“Sentences that could have come from a James M Cain pulp potboiler.”
“Sportswriting of almost Marquez-ian calibre from Christian Ryan.”
“Ryan … the equivalent of watching an Attenborough documentary.”
“Christian, you are the Quentin Tarantino of cricket writing.”
“Gideon is Coltrane, Chris is Sun Ra.”
