Anquetil, Alone: The Legend of the Controversial Tour de France Champion - Paperback

$19.30

Anquetil, Alone: The Legend of the Controversial Tour de France Champion - Paperback

Name: Anquetil, Alone: The Legend of the Controversial Tour de France Champion - Paperback
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SKU: 9781781257326
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by Paul Fournel (Author)

Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards 2018 for Biography of the Year and Cycling Book of the Year

There are things he does alone, and things that he alone does.

Jacques Anquetil was a cyclist with an aristocratic demeanor and a relaxed attitude to rules and morals. His womanising and frank admissions of doping appalled 1960s French society, even as his five Tour de France wins enthralled it.

Paul Fournel was besotted with him from the start ("Too young to understand, I was nevertheless old enough to admire") and followed Anquetil's career with the passion of a fan and the eye of a poet.

In this stunningly original biography of a complex and divisive character, Fournel - author of the seminal V lo (or Need for the Bike)- blends the story of Anquetil's life with scenes from his own, to create a classic of cycling literature.

Author Biography

Paul Fournel is a French writer, poet, publisher and cultural ambassador. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for short fiction for Les Athl鑼es dans leur t黎e. His Besoin de V駘o (translated into English as Need for the Bike and V駘o) is a classic cycling text, in which he describes himself as the Proust of the chute. Anquetil, Alone is translated by Nick Caistor.

Number of Pages: 144

Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 IN

Publication Date: May 17, 2018

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