The Riders (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
What begins as a hopeful new chapter in an Irish cottage turns into a haunting, desperate odyssey across Europe in Tim Winton's The Riders — a novel that grips the reader from its very first page and refuses to let go. When Scully, an Australian expatriate, arrives in Ireland to prepare a home for his wife and daughter, he is met at the airport by his daughter alone, his wife having vanished without a trace or explanation. With his young daughter Billie as his only companion — mute with shock and secrets she will not share — Scully tears across the wintry landscapes of Ireland, Greece, and Amsterdam in a frantic, increasingly unhinged search for the woman he loves. The Riders is a masterwork of psychological suspense and raw emotional intensity, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995, cementing Winton's reputation as one of Australia's most formidable literary voices. Winton writes with visceral precision, mapping the geography of obsession and masculinity against a backdrop of windswept European winters, his prose oscillating between lyrical beauty and brutal honesty. The novel poses a question that lingers long after the final page: how well can we ever truly know the people we love — and what remains of a man when the answer is nothing at all?
Author: Tim Winton
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994, Macmillan Australia
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
What begins as a hopeful new chapter in an Irish cottage turns into a haunting, desperate odyssey across Europe in Tim Winton's The Riders — a novel that grips the reader from its very first page and refuses to let go. When Scully, an Australian expatriate, arrives in Ireland to prepare a home for his wife and daughter, he is met at the airport by his daughter alone, his wife having vanished without a trace or explanation. With his young daughter Billie as his only companion — mute with shock and secrets she will not share — Scully tears across the wintry landscapes of Ireland, Greece, and Amsterdam in a frantic, increasingly unhinged search for the woman he loves. The Riders is a masterwork of psychological suspense and raw emotional intensity, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995, cementing Winton's reputation as one of Australia's most formidable literary voices. Winton writes with visceral precision, mapping the geography of obsession and masculinity against a backdrop of windswept European winters, his prose oscillating between lyrical beauty and brutal honesty. The novel poses a question that lingers long after the final page: how well can we ever truly know the people we love — and what remains of a man when the answer is nothing at all?