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"Like the best-selling "Little Bee", Cleave's new book, "Gold", is highly emotionally charged . . . Cleave immersed himself in the world of track cycling and makes the most of his research in scenes of stunning athletic endurance, but it's the trials of the human spirit that are his real material in a novel meant to move you. And it does."--"New York Daily News"

"Cleave kick-starts his stories from the first breath and never takes his feet off the pedals." --"Washington Post"

"Cleave's great gift is his ability to write moving fiction that also provides original, contemporary insights. . . . "Gold" is a real winner of a novel."--"USA Today"

"Emotionally arresting (and exquisitely timed) . . . Cleave shines when he focuses on the cyclists' sacrifices, including training sessions in which they push themselves to the brink of blacking out . . . Cleave's fine novel will give you an appreciation for all that London's Olympians have gone through as you watch them contort their bodies, leap for the heavens or pedal round and round and round."--"Sports Illustrated"

"If Olympic medals were awarded for dramatic stories about what drives athletes to compete and succeed, Cleave would easily ascend the podium. "Gold "does for sport racing what Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild" did for high-risk adventure: It demystifies its allure, giving readers an inside track on a certain type of compulsive mindset. But "Gold" is also about time, ambition and love, three life forces continuously jockeying for supremacy. Novels, like racing, depend on careful pacing, and Cleave calibrates his performance with the skill of a real pro, carefully ratcheting up the intensity as he finesses curves and heads into his final laps. . . . Cleave spins a doozy of a plot, with enough drama and sentiment to sustain a soap opera. His characters are humanized by their struggle with their personal demons . . . . With "Gold", Cleave unleashes megawatts of power in yet another triumphant dash toward literary success."--NPR

"Cleave again displays a remarkable aptitude for rendering female characters with startling realism, one of the strengths of his previous novels (particularly 2009's "Little Bee"). He conjures Sophie's traumatized yet resilient young mind as deftly as he does the complex interior narratives of high-strung Zoe and the more philosophical Kate. . . . In these breathless portrayals of sport and spirit, "Gold" illuminates the stories of courage, loss, and commitment that are behind each of the seemingly invincible Olympians we root for every four years."--"Elle"

""Gold" wins a medal for impressive timing: Chris Cleave's adrenalized novel--which breathlessly tracks the complicated friendship and furious competition between two speed cyclists, Kate and Zoe, as they train for a fictional London 2012 Olympics--arrives just a month before the opening of the actual London 2012 Olympics. . . . As Cleave demonstrated in his best-seller "Little Bee", he is a full-hearted writer."--"Entertainment Weekly"

"Chris Cleave's latest novel lives and breathes, sweats and suffers at the harrowing place where ambition collides with sacrifice. That it arrives on the eve of the 2012 Olympic Games in London is perfect timing on the part of Cleave and publisher Simon & Schuster, but "Gold" would be first class anytime, anywhere. It's an adrenaline-fueled drama about winning and losing, in the velodrome and daily existence, an explosive exploration of the cost of success and the way sports competition can spill unhappily into life. It will force you to reconsider the definition of "victory," and it will leave you breathless . . . Cleave proves again that if writing were an Olympic sport, he'd be vying for a medal."--"Miami Herald"

"Cleave has the extremely rare power of making you smile with lively language and clever observations while he is thoroughly, irreparably breaking your heart."--"Newsday "(NY)

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Sharing a close friendship and rivalry throughout their Elite training, world-class athletes Zoe and Kate find the limits of their physical and emotional realities tested on the eve of London 2012, where they consider difficult sacrifices and weigh their senses of mortality. By the author of the best-selling Little Bee. (general fiction).

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  • EditorialLarge Print Pr
  • Año de publicación2013
  • ISBN 10 1594136394
  • ISBN 13 9781594136399
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  • Número de páginas533
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