Determined to tackle the most fearsome physical challenge outside
of classical mythology, Tim Moore, the ultimate amateur, resolves
to complete all 2,256 miles of the Tour de France in the weeks
before the professionals set off. Accounts of Moore's epic
sufferings, and those encountered by the greatest heroes--including
Lance Armstrong--in the Tour's history, are woven into a
hilariously mordant look at rural France busy tarting itself up for
its two weeks of the world's attention. A comic depiction of
how to exceed--magnificently and hilariously--one's own grasp,
French Revolutions is a laugh-out-loud tale by a writer described
as "equal parts Bill Bryson and Evelyn Waugh" (The
Christian Science Monitor).
