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Fred Scully has decided to leave Australia to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. He labours alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, but when he arrives at the airport to pick up his wife and child, only his small daughter steps off the plane. So begins Scully’s desperate odyssey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn’t know.
‘A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory, written in page-turning style’ Daily Telegraph
‘An intricate, magnificently readable novel’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating’ Independent
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"A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory." (The Daily Telegraph)
"The curse of this haunting book is that you read it too fast." (The New Yorker)
"Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating." (The Independent)
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Shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize, this is a fearless and remarkable exploration of how well we can ever really know one another.
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- PublisherPicador Australia
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0330357395
- ISBN 13 9780330357395
- BindingPaperback
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Medium Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. 377 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Picador, Australia, 2004. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and seven-year-old daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone - he's that kind of man. The flight lands, the glass doors hiss open, and Scully's life begins to go down in flames. So begins an odyssey across Europe, a journey through the underworld of every lover's nightmare, as father and daughter, isolated from each other by terror and need, desperately search the wreckage of their lives for answers. This is a story of a marriage in our time. Of a man who would go to the ends of the earth for a woman and their child - and of a woman who must let them pass blindly by. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australian; ISBN: 0330357395. ISBN/EAN: 9780330357395. Inventory No: 20120359. Seller Inventory # 20120359
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Paperback. 1. Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone - he's that kind of man. The flight lands, the doors at the airport hiss open . . . Scully's life falls apart.Written with the pace of a thriller and the human understanding of a master novelist, The Riders is the novel that brought Tim Winton to international attention. 'At its breaking heart is a fearless exploration of how well we can ever really know each other . . . Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist full stop.' The Times (London) 'Winton has forced a different kind of thinking about men and their imperatives, about the value and meaning of action . . . The Riders is a grand, poised, metaphorical reconciliation.' Sydney Morning Herald 'There is more feeling in this book than can ever be paraphrased.' Village Voice'The Riders is about painful process of learning to live without illusions, without false anticipation . . . Furious and vital . . . a celebration - of the messiness of life and of the force of good fiction.' The Guardian' Vivid and rewarding . . . Encompasses and transcends all the known world.' Thomas Keneally 2009. Reprint. A good copy. Seller Inventory # 12718007
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