The Rider
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1582342903 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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He imagines an official collecting his clothes "after I've died in the race" recalls a champion cyclist who suffocated to death while climbing one particularly nasty hill; and insists that "being a good loser is a despicable evasion." Along the way, he lays bare the athlete's peculiar mixture of arrogance and terror, viciousness and camaraderie, and the result is one of the more convincing love stories of recent memory. "The emptiness of those lives shocks me." In immediate, living prose, Krabbé, a novelist as well as a cy
Leslie Reissner said Go, Timmy, Go!. An utterly engrossing book, "The Rider" by Tim Krabbé is a first-person account of a competitor in a French amateur cycling race. Kilometer by kilometer, the author describes, economically, but with plausible feeling, the range of emotions he goes through. It is clear that he rides for the love of cycling, but his writing reveals the mental calculations, often not very flattering, that go through the mind of a rider. A chess player, he is out on th. Four Stars This was a gift to a cyclist He said he was really enjoying the book. Hence the Four Stars yvette atkins This was a gift to a cyclist He said he was really enjoying the book. Hence the 4 stars. stars. For Bicycling Racing Fans A Customer If you are a big fan of bike racing and the Tour de France (before Lance) then this book may appeal to you. It's written in the first person and is the authors's thoughts as he battles his way through a fictional 100 mile one day racing classic. It was written in Dutch and translated into English, and perhaps suffers because the language is not the author's intended words. It's not exacting exciting prose, nor drama. I ride a lot and I admit that while th
His many books include The Vanishing, which was made into a successful film, and The Cave. Krabbé's half-day race, delivered kilometer by kilometer onto the page, shows the sport for what it is: painful, exhilarating, tactical, relational, fast, slow, dangerous, consuming, prone to mechanical failure, heroic, futile" -Donald Antrim'there's something about Krabbé'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.' -Time Out New York'Compellingirradiated by an intense love of cycling and a fascination with the nature of the racing experience Krabbé captures the rhythm of the race.'-The Economist'A complex meditation on the nature of extreme physical and mental exertion, wrapped in the guise of a simple account of one bicycle race. The Rider is the ultimate book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast. Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider became an instant cult classic,