Blindfold Games (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alan Ross
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1922 to the 1940’s
- Setting: India, England, and Germany
- Principal Characters: Alan Ross
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, World War II, Poetry or poets, Poverty or poor people, City life, India or East Indian people, Military life or service, Sports, Navies, Rugby
Form and Content
Alan Ross’s retrospective, Blindfold Games, is an unusual autobiography. The author, a noted poet and travel writer, uses verse at the end of prose chapters for a fuller development of his themes and motifs. These poems illuminate the four major sections of Blindfold Games, each of which centers on a time of change in his life: his experience as a child growing up in Calcutta, India, at the end of the British Raj; his forced move to England, early school experiences, and his growing love of the game of cricket; further educational adventures at...
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