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Come Gone is the highly anticipated sequel to Joe Parkin's widely praised best-seller, A Dog in a Hat. Picking up the story of his pro career, Parkin perseveres through three hardscrabble seasons chasing wins on the U.S. road racing circuit before he changes course and tastes victory as a mountain toon meer bike racer. A gritty, authentic, and heartfelt personal memoir, Come Gone is also a chronicle of the rebirth of professional bike racing in America. toon minder

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Interesting and insightful autobiography of a young American who moved to Europe to race bicycles.
 
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dlinnen | 3 andere besprekingen | Feb 3, 2024 |
More often than not, sports memoirs usually fall into two major categories; tell-all scandal sheets designed to sell copies through controversy, and lengthy life stories heavily padded with dull and unneeded information.

Joe Parkin’s biking memoir does not fall into either of these camps. In A Dog in a Hat, Parkin chronicles the years he spent training and racing in Belgium during the late eighties with brevity and candor, giving the reader plenty of breathing room to enjoy the behind the scenes look at professional bike racing.

Perkin’s memoir is about more than just racing. It is a look at the adventures and journeys of an ambitious young man immersing himself in unfamiliar cultures and customs, not only in the intense world of professional team bike racing, but also the foreign land and people that for a short while became his adopted home and family.
Never bitter or overly dramatic,

A Dog in a Hat is a professional athlete’s fond recollection of a period in his life filled with the experiences and decisions – both good and bad – that not only define the development of an athletic career, but of one man’s life journey.

Even if you are not into professional bike racing, A Dog in a Hat is a sports memoir that will amuse, inspire, and entertain.
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smichaelwilson | 3 andere besprekingen | Mar 14, 2017 |
A rare glimpse into the world of professional cycling in Belgium, this is a story that could only have been told by Joe Parkin, an American cycling in Europe not for the glory but for the love of it. If you're interested at all in cycling beyond what is seen in the Tour de France then I would recommend this book. It definitely garnered a new found respect for these athletes, who in my opinion, push themselves beyond what any other sport requires.

However, it's a shame that this book wasn't better edited, because then it might reach a wider audience. Of course Joe Parkin is a cyclist, not a writer, but this is where a good editor steps in. The book lacked cohesiveness and at times seemed very random- anecdotes thrown in that didn't really have anything to do with anything, while some other things were glossed over. I wish there had been more emphasis placed on the cultural difference between the way Belgians regard cycling and Americans disregard it. It really won't appeal to anyone other than cyclists.… (meer)
 
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InDreamsAwake | 3 andere besprekingen | Apr 5, 2013 |
This is good for a die-hard racer on the US scene. It covers the the period in time I was just getting into racing, so for me it is a bit nostalgic. I think his previous book was better though - it seemed more introspective and hopeful somehow where this book often times seemed negative and the mood seemed to trace the denouement of the career it was chronicling
 
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