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This novel portrays four people - a half-mad heiress, a washer-woman, a Jewish refugee and a mixed-race Aborigine - who mystically share a vision of the divine. The ways in which each of these people touches the lives of those who would destroy the vision is the heart of this story.
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"[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)
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"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)
A bold, visionary story of four intertwining lives from the Nobel prizewinning novelist
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140186344
- ISBN 13 9780140186345
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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