The Rider - BookWyrm

Paperback, 160 pages

English language

Published June 12, 2003 by Bloomsbury USA.

ISBN:: 978-1-58234-290-0
OCLC Number:: 52602994

(6 reviews)

The book tells the story of a rider during a cycling race. Trougth a major competition, the rider describe his feelings and compares life itself with a bike race. "Bike race is not a metaphor for life. Life is a metaphor for a bike race"

3 editions

Rainer reviewed The Rider by Tim Krabbe

Review of 'The Rider' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

As a person who loves to ride my bike, this book has inspired me. I will never look at cycling up (or down) a hill the same way again.

This book is very interesting because I don't really have much appetite for modern "cycling" culture and I don't really follow things like the Tour de France, but this book seems to be from an era before all of the corruption and doping.