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The Rider

by Tim Krabbé

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Narrator Mark Meadows

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Length 4 hours 53 minutes
Language English
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Bloomsbury presents The Rider by Tim Krabbé, read by Mark Meadows.

At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabbé glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. ‘Non-racers,’ he writes. ‘The emptiness of those lives shocks me.’ Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up the hills and clings on during descents in the unforgiving French mountains.

Originally published in 1978, The Rider is a modern-day classic that is recognised as one of the best books ever written about the sport. Brilliantly conceived and best read at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative and passionate tribute to the art of cycle racing.

Biography & MemoirSports & RecreationNonfiction

Tim Krabbé is a chess as well as a cycling enthusiast and one of Holland's leading writers. His many books include the noir novels THE VANISHING and THE CAVE. He lives in Amsterdam. Sam Garrett, a former wire-service correspondent, is the translator of THE CAVE, also by Tim Krabbé, THE GATES OF DAMASCUS by Lieve Joris and SILENT EXTRAS by Arnon Grunberg.

Audiobook details

Author
Narrator Mark Meadows
ISBN 9781639736461
Length 4 hours 53 minutes
Language English
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date
Edition Unabridged
Genres Biography & Memoir, Sports & Recreation & Nonfiction
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A beautiful, quiet piece of work: unusual, plausible, moving and poignant A classic. Like all the best sports writing, The Rider manages to convey the excitement, determination and skill of the competitors even to readers who have little or no knowledge of the sport 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 Rider is a beautiful brute, as hard and fast as a thin wheel in a concrete road Its 148 pages will flash by in a blur of reckless, high-speed pleasure The Rider perfectly captures the grim satisfaction and endorphin-thrill that comes from riding a bike faster than you did the time before. It's also a reminder of the pure pleasure of reading Expand reviews
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