Name: the riders
SKU: 1560569
Price: 872.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780684822778

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tim Winton

Publisher

Scribner

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.4x2.2 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

0684822776

ISBN13

9780684822778

Synopsis "the riders"

An exploration of marriage and the rich relationship that can exist between father and daughter, The Riders is a gorgeously wrought novel from the award-winning author Tim Winton. 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.

Tim Winton

(Author)

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(1960, Perth, Australia) is the author of an extensive body of work translated worldwide. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has received the Miles Franklin Award four times for Shallows (1984), Cloudstreet (1991), Dirt Music (2001), and Breath (2008; Asteroid Books, 2024) and has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize for his novels The Riders (1994) and Dirt Music. He lives in Western Australia.

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