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We Begin Our Ascent: A Gripping Literary Novel of the Tour de France and the Dangerous Intersection of Family and Ambition - Softcover

Reed, Joe Mungo

 
9780008298197: We Begin Our Ascent: A Gripping Literary Novel of the Tour de France and the Dangerous Intersection of Family and Ambition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 000829819X ISBN 13: 9780008298197
Publisher: The Borough Press, 2019

Synopsis

‘A dazzling debut by an exciting and essential new talent’ George Saunders, Man Booker Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo

For Sol and Liz, competition is everything. On the road or in the lab, it’s all on the line.

As a young professional cyclist in the Tour de France and a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, success looks within reach for them both – if only they can reach out and grab it.

But everything comes at a cost, whether that’s starting a family or doping to keep up with the team, and soon the worlds of drugs, cycling and family will collide, and they will be forced to decide whether the price of accomplishment is something they can afford.

In this powerful, gripping and blackly comic debut, this young couple must ask themselves: what is it we’re striving for? And what is it worth?

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About the Author

Joe Mungo Reed was born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, England. He has a master’s in philosophy and politics at the University of Edinburgh and an MFA in creative writing at Syracuse University, where he won the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. He is the author of the novel, We Begin Our Ascent, and his short stories have appeared in VQR and Gigantic and anthologized in Best of Gigantic. He is currently living in Edinburgh, UK.

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Publisher
The Borough Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
000829819X
ISBN 13 
9780008298197
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252