The Riders - Hardcover

Winton, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684802961 ISBN 13: 9780684802961

Publisher: Scribner, 1995

Synopsis

The prize-winning Australian author of Cloudstreet returns with a novel of obsession and emotional torment about a man's tormented search for his wife, who disappears without explanation, leaving him with a seven-year-old daughter. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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From the Publisher:

After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating the old house, Jennifer returns to Australia to liquidate their assets. When Scully arrives at Shannon Airport to pick up Jennifer and their seven-year-old daughter, Billie, it is Billie who emerges -- alone. There is no note, no explanation, not so much as a word from Jennifer, and the shock has left Billie speechless. In that instant, Scully's life falls to pieces.

The Riders is a superbly written and a darkly haunting story of a lovesick man in a vain search for a vanished woman. It is a powerfully accurate account of marriage today, of the demons that trouble relationships, of resurrection found in the will to keep going, in the refusal to hold on, to stand still. The Riders is also a moving story about the relationship between a loving man and his tough, bright daughter.

About the Author:

Tim Winton grew up on the coast of Western Australia, where he continues to live. He is the author of eighteen books. His epic novel Cloudstreet was adapted for the theater and has been performed around the world. His two most recent novels, Dirt Music and The Riders, were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award three times, and in 1998 the Australian National Trust declared Winton a national living treasure. The Turning has already won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684802961
• ISBN 13: 9780684802961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384