Tim Krabbé’s novel is barely a novel. It is a thinly veiled autobiographical essay, with fictional details and composite characters, allowing the author to navigate his story just to one side of the fiction/nonfiction divide. The lads ponder why it does not fall into the “bike porn” genre, and why the images of teeth and glass continually emerge, but our overwhelming response is an enthusiastic account of what is a strange but compelling work of art.
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