The Rider - Mark Meadows - Music - AUDIBLE STUDIOS ON BRILLIANCE - 9781536639537 - January 24, 2017
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The Rider

Mark Meadows

The Rider

With The Rider, Tim Krabbé has created a book unique in the ranks of sporting literature. He describes one 150-kilometre race in just 150 pages. In the course of the narrative, we get to know the forceful, bumbling Lebusque, the aesthete Barthelemy, the Young Turk Reilhan, and the mysterious rider from Cycles Goff'. Krabbé battles with and against each of them in turn, failing on the descents, shining on the climbs, suffering on the (false) flats. The outcome of the race is, in fact, merely the last stanza of an exciting and too-brief paean to stamina, suffering, and the redeeming power of humour.

This is not a history of road racing, a hagiography of the European greats or even a factual account of his own amateur cycling career. Instead, Krabbé allows us to race with him, inside his skull as it were, during a mythical Tour de Mont Aigoual.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released January 24, 2017
ISBN13 9781536639537
Label AUDIBLE STUDIOS ON BRILLIANCE
Dimensions 133 × 165 × 6 mm   ·   150 g   (Weight (estimated))

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