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

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

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