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Item Details
Title:
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THE RIDERS
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By: |
Tim Winton |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0330339427 |
ISBN 13: |
9780330339421 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
9 February, 1996 |
Pages: |
368 |
Description: |
Shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize, this is a fearless and remarkable exploration of how well we can ever really know one another. |
Synopsis: |
Fred Scully has decided to leave Australia to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. He labours alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, but when he arrives at the airport to pick up his wife and child, only his small daughter steps off the plane. So begins Scully's desperate odyssey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn't know. 'A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory, written in page-turning style' Daily Telegraph 'An intricate, magnificently readable novel' Sunday Telegraph 'Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating' Independent |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Picador |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1995 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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