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The invisible mile
David Coventry
Published
2017
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Written in English
The 1928 Ravat-Wonder team from New Zealand and Australia were the first English-speaking team to ride the Tour de France. From June through July they faced one of toughest in the race"s history: 5,476 kilometers of unsealed roads on heavy, fixed-wheel bikes. They rode in darkness through mountains with no light and brakes like glass. They weren"t expected to finish, but stadiums filled with Frenchmen eager to call their names. The Invisible Mile is a powerful re-imagining of the tour from inside the peloton, where the test of endurance, for one young New Zealander, becomes a psychological journey into the chaos of the War a decade earlier. Riding on the alternating highs of cocaine and opium, victory and defeat, the rider"s mind is increasingly fixed on his encounter with his family"s past. As he nears the battlefields of the north and his last, invisible mile, the trauma of exertion and disputed guilt cast strange shadows on his story, and onlookers congregate about him waiting for revelation.
Edition Notes
| Statement | David Coventry |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR9639.4.C68 I58 2017 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 313 pages |
| Number of Pages | 313 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL26927447M |
| ISBN 10 | 1609453972 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781609453978 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 964294361 |
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A deeply introspective book, The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional, unnamed rider on the Ravat-Wonder team. Speaking no French and knowing few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place in its history/5(11).
A re-imagining of a true story, The Invisible Mile is a novel about the capacity of the human mind and body when stretched to their absolute limits, written in prose that calls to mind the works of Marilynne Robinson and John Banville, as well as Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award-winning novel The Underground Railroad.
A deeply introspective book, The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional, unnamed rider on the Ravat-Wonder team.
Speaking no French and knowing few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place in its history.
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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 Reviews: Published in six different languages his debut novel, The Invisible Mile (), was the winner of the Hubert Church Award for Fiction, shortlisted for both the Ockham New Zealand Book Award and the Sports Book Awards in the United Kingdom.
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The Invisible Mile debuted at #2 on the NZ bestseller list and remained in /5(9). Ina team of bicyclists from Australia and New Zealand were the first Anglophones to win the Tour de France. This debut novel from New Zealand author Coventry, a bestseller when published there two years ago, is the story of one of the riders on that team.
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The Invisible Mile is a powerful re-imagining of the tour from inside the peloton, where the test of endurance, for one young New Zealander, becomes a psychological journey into the chaos of. The Invisible Mile was shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was in the NZ top Ten for over a year.3/5.
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David was the recipient of the Todd New Writer’s Bursary administered by Creative New Zealand and is currently studying for a PhD.A deeply introspective book,The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional, unnamed rider on the Ravat-Wonder team.
Speaking no French and knowing few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place in its history.
