The Rider
SKU: SONG1582342032
ISBN : 9781582342030
Condition : Used
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The Rider
A literary sports classic, finally available in the U.S. Originally published in Holland in 1978,The Rider became an instant cult classic, selling over 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a breakneck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Not a dry history of the sport, The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece that describes in painstaking detail one 150-kilometer race in a mere 150 pages. We are, every inch of the way, inside amateur biker Tim Krabbé's head as his mind churns at top speed along with his furious peddling. Privy to his every thought-on the glory and vagaries of the sport itself, the weather, the characters and lineage of his rival cyclists, almost hallucinogenic anecdotes about great riders of the past-the book progresses kilometer by kilometer, thought by thought, and the reader is left breathless and exhilarated. A thrillingly realistic look at what it is like to compete in a road race, The Rider
is the ultimate book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast.
Specification of The Rider
GENERAL | |
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Author | Tim Krabbé |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN-10 | 1582342032 |
ISBN-13 | 9781582342030 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication Date | 2002 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 8.22 inch. |
Length | 0.79 inch. |
Width | 5.26 inch. |
Weight | 0.61 pounds pounds. |
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