The riders / Tim Winton
- Bib ID:
- 2183770
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Winton, Tim, 1960-
- Edition:
- Scribner ed.
- Description:
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- New York ; Sydney : Scribner, 1995
- 377 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684802961
- Summary:
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Fred Scully is in another country, a "desert Irishman" far from home. After two long years of traveling through Europe, he decided to move his family from Australia to western Ireland. Scully arrived weeks ahead of his family to renovate the old farmhouse they'd bought in the shadow of a castle in County Offally. Now, at the gate of Shannon's international airport, he anxiously awaits the arrival of his pregnant wife and seven-year-old daughter, envisioning a new life ahead, a fresh start. He has waited for and worried about this for months. He is a man who does not like being alone. The plane lands, the glass doors to the terminal slide open and his daughter emerges. Alone. There is no note, no word of explanation from his wife, only the mute silence of his stunned child. In an instant, Scully's life goes down in flames.
The Riders, written with the grace and clarity that are hallmarks of Tim Winton's much-acclaimed fiction, is a story of a marriage in our time. A love-crazed odyssey to the underside of the male psyche, it is a powerful, dark journey in search of a woman vanished.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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