Riders in the Chariot - Brossura

White, Patrick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099323915 ISBN 13: 9780099323914

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 1996

Riassunto

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUF

Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.

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Recensione:

"[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 Tóibķn 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)

Descrizione del libro:

A bold, visionary story of four intertwining lives from the Nobel prizewinning novelist

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0099323915
• ISBN 13: 9780099323914
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560