Published: 30 June 2011
ISBN: 9781446434987
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 560

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Fantasy

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Riders in the Chariot

Patrick White

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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

Categories:

Fantasy

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About the author

Patrick White

Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war.
He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.

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Praise for Riders in the Chariot

[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