Tim Krabbe’s ‘The Rider’ Won Us Over By Losing

Tim Krabbe’s ‘The Rider’ Won Us Over By Losing

Brandy: Let me start by saying thank you, Patrick, for picking this book. I enjoyed it enormously. I will also now immediately display ingratitude by ignoring what you said in your lovely introductory essay and say that I read this book as a metaphor. Specifically, it felt to me of a piece with another genre of slim, semi-autobiographical volume from a European writer: an account of a woman being driven to madness by an obsession for which she i…