Ein Mann und sein Rad von Wilfried de Jong jetzt online kaufen
Ein Mann und sein Rad von Wilfried de Jong jetzt online kaufen
Ein Mann und sein Rad von Wilfried de Jong jetzt online kaufen
Ein Mann und sein Rad von Wilfried de Jong jetzt online kaufen

A man and his bike - Wilfried de Jong

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Cycling Stories

In this book, Wilfried de Jong combines his two passions: writing and cycling. In twenty gripping stories, he steers his (racing) bike through cosmopolitan cities and over lonely country roads in the Italian provinces, through the local dunes and up to the legendary Mont Ventoux in the fog. And despite his constant restlessness, astonishing encounters soon occur on each of his tours. In France, he gets a massage from a racing driver's widow, in Manhattan he's riding in the company of a confused young man aptly named Trouble, and on the bike path in the Rhine-Meuse delta he's speeding towards an undecided coot...

As a writer, the well-known TV presenter, film and theater maker gives his passion for cycling an unmistakable literary voice. Awarded Sports Book of the Year in the Netherlands.

Release date : May 2014

Author : Wilfried de Jong

Paperback, 256 pages in the format 21 cm x 14.8 cm

Covadonga Verlag , Rainer Sprehe, Spindelstr. 58, D-33604 Bielefeld

ISBN : 978-3-936973-91-4

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VOICES ABOUT THE BOOK

De Jong loves cycling. In his stories, the fascination for fast, quiet rides, for agonizingly long climbs, is almost physically palpable. Speech also gets out of breath when the number of beats increases. At times, almost mythical scenes unfold that bring the reader closer to the existential connection between bicycles and humans.

trekking bike

June 2014

A volume of twenty wonderful stories about cycling. [...] As a reader, you devour one story after the other, can't stop reading for a long time and at the same time sink down with quiet sadness: In Germany, a cycling culture will never emerge that produces such literary works about this sport.

TRIP

November 2014

Charming, entertaining texts bear witness to a keen power of observation.

Wire esel - the Austrian bicycle magazine

March 2014

With plenty of humor and a wealth of experience, but never to talk shop, de Jong recalls some of the most memorable moments of his life.

The standard

August 26, 2014

The stories are not only a pleasure for bike fans.

bike journal

April 2014

De Jong has created a life-wise and very human book. The author drives through the world in amazement and with open eyes. He is in the mood for exercise and encounters. The resulting stories are complex, humorous, touching, even touching. Cycling and life become one.

Michael Reinartz

WDR 2

De Jong is a masterful short story narrator. At the end of each story, he leaves his readers touched but serene.

Andrea Reidl

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The author

WILFRIED DEJONG

Wilfried de Jong, born in 1957, is what you would call a multi-talent: writer, film and theater maker, TV presenter, producer, actor and professional sports lover. Born in Rotterdam, he hosted the live show Holland Sport on Dutch television for eight years and has presented the interview program 24 uur met since 2008. He has a weekly column in the NRC Handelsblad and since 2005 has already published more than half a dozen books with stories released.