- Published: 30 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446434987
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
Riders in the Chariot
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. 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.
- Published: 30 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446434987
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 560
[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
