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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781582342900 ISBN: 1582342903 Label: Bloomsbury USA Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: June 12, 2003 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Studio: Bloomsbury USA Sales Rank: 43189
Product Description: 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Only 3 stars, and I'm being polite !
I had high hopes for this book, and truly felt it deserved only 2 stars. However, since there are not many cycling "novels" on the market, I felt compelled to issue a 3 star rating.
Rating: - Fantastic novella
This review will probably not be highly enlightening, as all I can say is that I thought The Rider was fantastic, even though it lost focus at times.
But my true gain here was that it led ... Read More
Rating: - Great story!
This book is very well written. At times, I felt like I was actually there to experience the events. I even learned some things about racing strategies from this book. I fell in love with this sport ... Read More
Rating: - fun, quick read
Run, quick read. Great book for any cyclist. I could relate to some of his stratedgies as he was going thru the race and his feelings of praying for a mechanical. The book tends to jump around a bit, ... Read More
Rating: - Magic!
I really loved the book. It is for sure in my 10 best books ever list.
The book really manages to describe with precision what goes inside a rider's mind (and all the dilemas) during a race. ... Read More
- Only 3 stars, and I'm being polite !
- Fantastic novella
- Great story!