In the pain, the pleasure, Mark Reason 

The Invisible Mile David Coventry Victoria University Press, $30.00 ISBN 9781776560431 David Coventry had a very good idea, perhaps a brilliant idea, of turning the 1928 Tour de France into an odyssey. It is a journey through spiritual and physical pain, through memory and shifting personality. It is a poetic novel in which war, religion and a bicycle race come to grief, a multiple pile-up of sacrifice and suffering.

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