Ventoux - Bert Wagendorp

Title: Ventoux - Bert Wagendorp

Writer: Bert Wagendorp

Binding method: Cross tie

EAN: 9789049803421

Condition: Good

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- New: Book is new.

Description:
Bert Wagendorp's Ventoux is a moving tragicomedy that extends from the Achterhoek in the sixties and seventies to the Randstad and Provence in 2012.
Bart Hoffman is a crime journalist, cyclist and almost fifty. The future worries him when he is overtaken by the past: his friends David, Joost and André return to his life. And with them the summer of 1982; the summer of hopeless love for the beautiful Laura, the summer of betrayal and the summer of death by negligence on the Mont Ventoux. In the summer of 2010 the friends return, with the racing bikes on the roof, their troubles on the tow bar and the lost time on the back seat.
Ventoux is a story about the old friendship between five men and a woman. A moving, hilarious and sharp portrait of a generation. And a search for the consequences of choices.
In June, Ventoux was named Book of the Month by De Wereld Draait Door.
Director Nicole van Kilsdonk is already developing a feature film based on the book.
About Bert Wagendorp
Bert Wagendorp (1956) is a columnist for the Volkskrant, writer and co-founder and editor of the cycling magazine De Muur. He previously wrote the novella De Proloog and the collection of stories De Dubbele Scissor.
Quotes Ventoux
`A primeval book about friendship. This book has everything. Booksellers panel De Wereld Draait Door
`Ventoux can be seen as a cross between Tommy Wieringa's Joe Speedboot and Tim Krabbé's The Runner. De Gelderlander
`Hilarious, exciting, feel-good. **** NRC Handelsblad