Riders in the Chariot
Patrick White author David Malouf editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Sep '96
Should be back in stock very soon
A bold, visionary story of four intertwining lives from the Nobel prizewinning novelist
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF
Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF
Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.
[A] monumental work [of more than] half a thousand pages -- almost every one of which cries out for quotation * New York Times *
Riders in the Chariot is the most compassionate and the most beautiful of all Patrick White’s works; colours fly everywhere; his words, comic, ecstatic, are like the brushstrokes on a canvas -- Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín * The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 *
This is a book which really defies review; for its analysable qualities are overwhelmed by those imponderables which make a work 'great' in the untouchable sense. It must be read because, like Everest, 'it is there'. * Guardian *
The outstanding figure in Australian fiction * New York Times *
Stands out among contemporary novelists like a cathedral surrounded by booths. Its forms, its impulse and its dedication to what is eternal all excite a comparison with religious architecture * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9780099323914
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 33mm
Weight: 383g
560 pages