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The Giro d'Italia: Coppi vs. Bartali at the 1949 Tour of Italy (Paperback)

by Dino Buzatti (Author) "WE OPEN THE DOOR TO CABIN No. 223, second tourist class ..." (more)

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Paperback: 202 pages
Publisher: VeloPress (1 Dec 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 188473751X
ISBN-13: 978-1884737510
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.1 x 1.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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This is the first account of Giro d''Italia p ublished in English which includes maps and illustrations of the legendary 1949 Tour of Italy. '

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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic race recounted with remarkable imagination, 5 Sep 2002

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Dino Buzzati was known foremost as a playwright and novelist when he was sent by popular Italian newspaper La Corriere della Sera to cover the 1949 Tour of Italy cycling race. By assembling the daily reports he filed at the time, this book records not just the classic duel between two national sporting heroes in Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi, but also the mood of abjection and dissolution that tainted postwar Italy.

Buzatti offers cycling fans a refreshing perspective on one of the world's best-loved races - and he dazzles non-enthusiasts with his flamboyant descriptions of everything in and around the world of professional cycling. Often the author's extravagant imagination gets the better of him. When the Giro goes up Mt Etna, Buzatti gives the narrative over to the volcano itself, which speaks of its pride in having the country's best riders struggling up its slopes; later on, the spirits of dead soldiers evoke their ghoulish suffering as the Giro's cavalcade motors past their unmarked graveyard.

But Buzatti does not ignore the action. He beautifully communicates the frenzied support of the tifosi (Italian fans), seeking to rebuild a sense of national pride; and he carefully crafts portraits of the ageing hero Bartali and his new upstart rival, the young Fausto Coppi. This is a classic race, recounted with verve and invention by an exceptional writing talent.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An account of more than just a race, 23 Jul 1999

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Dino Buzatti's account of the 1949 Giro D'Italia goes way beyond an account of the struggle between two cycling greats. For anyone who loves Italy and it's culture here is a description of a national sporting institution being played out against the backdrop of a country recovering from war. This is in some respects a travelogue and does more to convince the reader of the unique nature of the Italian psyche than any other book I have read. We read of landscape and climate and joy and sadness and politics and eating. And, oh by the way, we read about the great Bartali and the even greater Fausto Coppi. The cycling is not by any means relegated to secondary relavence, just put into perspective.

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