The Rider
Author(s): Tim Krabbe
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 break-neck 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. "The Rider" is the ultimate book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast.
Product Information
'...there's something about Krabbe's spare writing style that lulls even uninitiated readers into a sort of trance--presumably not unlike that of the long-distance racer moving ever closer to the finishing line.'
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- : 0.113
- : 01 June 2003
- : 197mm X 135mm X 11mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 160
- : 603
- : BC
- : Tim Krabbe