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The Invisible Mile

Af: David Coventry Engelsk Paperback

The Invisible Mile

Af: David Coventry Engelsk Paperback
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Based on a true story The Invisible Mile tells the poignant story of five Australian and New Zealand cyclists who in 1928 formed the first English-speaking team to ride in the Tour de France. They were gallant, under-resourced and badly outnumbered but taken deep to the heart by the French nation. The novel describes in a wonderful poetic and visceral voice what it was like to ride in this race (the chaos, danger and rivalries), the extraordinary lengths to which the riders pushed themselves, suffering horrific injuries, riding through the night in pitch dark, and the ways they staved off the pain, through camaraderie, through sexual conquest, through drink, and through drugs (cocaine for energy, opium for pain).

Added to the team is the fictional narrator who is cycling towards his demons in a northern France still scarred by the First World War. His brother was a fighter pilot damaged by his experiences in France, his sister has died, and this self-imposed test of endurance is slowly and painfully bringing him to his final, invisible mile where memory eventually comes to collide with the past

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Based on a true story The Invisible Mile tells the poignant story of five Australian and New Zealand cyclists who in 1928 formed the first English-speaking team to ride in the Tour de France. They were gallant, under-resourced and badly outnumbered but taken deep to the heart by the French nation. The novel describes in a wonderful poetic and visceral voice what it was like to ride in this race (the chaos, danger and rivalries), the extraordinary lengths to which the riders pushed themselves, suffering horrific injuries, riding through the night in pitch dark, and the ways they staved off the pain, through camaraderie, through sexual conquest, through drink, and through drugs (cocaine for energy, opium for pain).

Added to the team is the fictional narrator who is cycling towards his demons in a northern France still scarred by the First World War. His brother was a fighter pilot damaged by his experiences in France, his sister has died, and this self-imposed test of endurance is slowly and painfully bringing him to his final, invisible mile where memory eventually comes to collide with the past

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781509822935
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1509822933
Udg. Dato: 15 jun 2017
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 132mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 15 jun 2017
Forfatter(e): David Coventry
Forfatter(e) David Coventry


Kategori Mellemkrigstiden, 1919 til 1939


ISBN-13 9781509822935


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 132mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 15 jun 2017


Oplagsdato 15 jun 2017


Forlag Pan Macmillan

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