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24%OFFMatt Rendell - The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography - 9781474600774 - V9781474600774
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The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography

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Description for The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography paperback. The intimate biography of the charismatic Tour de France winner Marco Pantani and the world that caused his downfall. Now updated. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGS; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.

The intimate biography of the charismatic Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, now updated to include the 2014 and 2015 investigation into Pantani's death.

National Sporting Club Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

'An exhaustively detailed and beautiful book . . . a fitting, ambivalent tribute - to the man, and to the dark heart of the sport he loved' Independent

On Valentine's day 2004, Marco Pantani was found dead in a cheap hotel. It defied belief: Pantani, having won the rare double of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
299g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474600774
SKU
V9781474600774
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Ref
99-99

About Matt Rendell
Matt Rendell is an award-winning author and journalist. He is a member of ITV's presentation team at the Tour de France and, as a translator, reporter, commentator and podcaster, he has contributed to British Tour coverage for over 25 years. He created the Real Peloton podcast and hosted ITV's Tour de France podcast. He has written for the ... Read more

Reviews for The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
[Rendell's] not inconsiderable acheivement is to convey the sordid reality of the Tour while simultaneously adding to one's yearning for its lost idealism - THE TIMES Superficially [Pantani] appears to be a familiar type of sporting self-destructor. Like George Best, Diego Maradona, Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, and so on, he was prodigiously gifted; like them, he couldn't handle success and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography


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