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Title: The Invisible Mile
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: David Coventry
Narrator: Mark Meadows
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A reimagining 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.
In 1928 the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders, from faraway New Zealand and Australia, were treated as exotics and isolated from their surroundings by a thick barrier of language and culture. Underfinanced and undertrained, the team faced one of the toughest routes in the race's history, 5,476 kilometers over unsealed roads through a landscape heavy with the legacy of the Great War. One hundred and sixty-two cyclists began the race that year; only 42 finished.
A deeply introspective and spiritual book, The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional rider from the Ravat-Wonder team. Speaking no French and knowing a scant few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place among its history. He rides on the alternating highs of cocaine and opium, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat. And as he nears the northern battlefields and his last invisible mile, trauma, exertion, and his personal demons take over. The Invisible Mile is the story of one man's struggle for survival in the face of physical and psychological hardship, a profoundly human story about guilt and redemption.
Members Reviews:
Characters seem to come and go like ghosts, and situations wander from reality to past ...
I am an avid reader, writer, and English major; yet, I struggled with the cryptic prose and vague tone of this long book. Characters seem to come and go like ghosts, and situations wander from reality to past to dreams to drug-induced fogs. Writer seemed to enjoy puzzling the reader. I also hoped for more historical insight into the Tour de France in that era, but book lacked any substance in this regard.
Five Stars
Excellent Seller - product better than stated
Unrealized potential
Lots of great writing, but desperately in need of a good editor to pare down pages of unrelated reflections. As a result, hard to follow, kept finding myself flipping past pages of nonsense.
Five Stars
Best book I've read in years. Highly recommend.
To drop out is to die
"Everyday I crash and I hope its the end". This sentence probably sums up the action of this book better than any other. But this is much more than a book about the 1928 Tour de France. This is epic literature with all the usual themes present; suffering, redemption, the horrors of war, the camaraderie of men, love and loss. There are also descriptions of the torments of stage racing of such hallucinatory intensity you'll never question why cyclists dope again. Rather you'll question what kind of masochist would choose not to dope. David Coventry has written not just the great Kiwi sporting novel but quite possibly the best novel about cycling ever. To him I can only say "Chapeau!"
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Title: The Invisible Mile
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: David Coventry
Narrator: Mark Meadows
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-17
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A reimagining 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.
In 1928 the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders, from faraway New Zealand and Australia, were treated as exotics and isolated from their surroundings by a thick barrier of language and culture. Underfinanced and undertrained, the team faced one of the toughest routes in the race's history, 5,476 kilometers over unsealed roads through a landscape heavy with the legacy of the Great War. One hundred and sixty-two cyclists began the race that year; only 42 finished.
A deeply introspective and spiritual book, The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional rider from the Ravat-Wonder team. Speaking no French and knowing a scant few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place among its history. He rides on the alternating highs of cocaine and opium, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat. And as he nears the northern battlefields and his last invisible mile, trauma, exertion, and his personal demons take over. The Invisible Mile is the story of one man's struggle for survival in the face of physical and psychological hardship, a profoundly human story about guilt and redemption.
Members Reviews:
Characters seem to come and go like ghosts, and situations wander from reality to past ...
I am an avid reader, writer, and English major; yet, I struggled with the cryptic prose and vague tone of this long book. Characters seem to come and go like ghosts, and situations wander from reality to past to dreams to drug-induced fogs. Writer seemed to enjoy puzzling the reader. I also hoped for more historical insight into the Tour de France in that era, but book lacked any substance in this regard.
Five Stars
Excellent Seller - product better than stated
Unrealized potential
Lots of great writing, but desperately in need of a good editor to pare down pages of unrelated reflections. As a result, hard to follow, kept finding myself flipping past pages of nonsense.
Five Stars
Best book I've read in years. Highly recommend.
To drop out is to die
"Everyday I crash and I hope its the end". This sentence probably sums up the action of this book better than any other. But this is much more than a book about the 1928 Tour de France. This is epic literature with all the usual themes present; suffering, redemption, the horrors of war, the camaraderie of men, love and loss. There are also descriptions of the torments of stage racing of such hallucinatory intensity you'll never question why cyclists dope again. Rather you'll question what kind of masochist would choose not to dope. David Coventry has written not just the great Kiwi sporting novel but quite possibly the best novel about cycling ever. To him I can only say "Chapeau!"