Riders In The Chariot
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a sun-scorched suburb of post-war Sydney, four vastly different souls — a spinster heiress, an Aboriginal painter, a Jewish refugee, and a washerwoman mystic — are bound together by a shared, ineffable vision: a blazing chariot from the Book of Ezekiel. Patrick White's Riders in the Chariot, first published in 1961, is a monumental work of Australian fiction that chronicles the collision of spiritual transcendence and brutal social conformity, as each of its visionaries is persecuted and ultimately crucified by the smug mediocrity of their suburban world. White, the only Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs his narrative with the gravity and fury of an Old Testament prophet, weaving Jewish mysticism, Christian allegory, and Aboriginal spirituality into a searing indictment of prejudice, nationalism, and the terrifying cost of genuine compassion. His prose is dense, visionary, and deeply poetic — demanding of the reader, yet rewarding with an almost unbearable emotional and moral intensity. What unites these four unlikely outcasts, and what exactly do they see in the chariot's consuming fire? The answer White provides is both devastating and luminous.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a sun-scorched suburb of post-war Sydney, four vastly different souls — a spinster heiress, an Aboriginal painter, a Jewish refugee, and a washerwoman mystic — are bound together by a shared, ineffable vision: a blazing chariot from the Book of Ezekiel. Patrick White's Riders in the Chariot, first published in 1961, is a monumental work of Australian fiction that chronicles the collision of spiritual transcendence and brutal social conformity, as each of its visionaries is persecuted and ultimately crucified by the smug mediocrity of their suburban world. White, the only Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, constructs his narrative with the gravity and fury of an Old Testament prophet, weaving Jewish mysticism, Christian allegory, and Aboriginal spirituality into a searing indictment of prejudice, nationalism, and the terrifying cost of genuine compassion. His prose is dense, visionary, and deeply poetic — demanding of the reader, yet rewarding with an almost unbearable emotional and moral intensity. What unites these four unlikely outcasts, and what exactly do they see in the chariot's consuming fire? The answer White provides is both devastating and luminous.