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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A wonderfully colourful and attentive novel that subtly combines the tangible pains of the race with the echoes of war' Sunday ExpressIn 1928, five cyclists from Australia and New Zealand made history by forming the first English-speaking team to ride in the Tour de France.This group sets off on a 5,476 kilometre journey that sees them ride out beyond their limits. No one is certain they will make it to the finish line - least of all our narrator, a New Zealander racing on a dangerous mix of drink, drugs and damaged memories. Travelling through a northern France still scarred by the First World War, his self-imposed test of endurance takes him ever closer to his own final, invisible mile.A visceral, psychological novel, The Invisible Mile is an extraordinary re-imagining of the race as a mediation on memory, on the creation of mythology, history, guilt and love.'The Invisible Mile relates this odyssey with symbolic force and poetic finesse' Sydney Morning Herald'Revealing the force of man's courage and will in the face of physical and psychological challenge, this is a brave and beautiful novel' Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching'A blood, sweat and tears odyssey that becomes a searing hinterland for returning memories, absence and loss. Mesmerizing' Alan McMonagle, author of Ithaca.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism#1 Book of the Year from Brain PickingsNamed a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit HubA dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to David Wojnarowicz's AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electrifying investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.