White, Patrick.

Riders in the Chariot. A Novel.

First British Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. 20.6cm x 13.8cm. 552 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition. The dustjacket illustration is taken from a painting by Sydney Nolan.

Four people and the vision that is the centre of each of their lives but which they keep hidden from the world/ a strange woman, whom all the neighbours think mad, living in a vast, crumbling house where a wall may crack away or a tree invade the room and hardly be noticed/ a Jew who has escaped the gas chambers of Germany/ a simple, kind person, a laundress, married to a drunkard/ an aboriginal with an obsessive gift for painting which is his only contact with the world/ a vision of that world of which the Chariot is the symbol/ each of them, in some way, has been chosen/ dramatic, strange and moving events. Author Patrick White also wrote “The Tree of Man”.

• Keywords: Australia · Australian Art · Australian History · Australian Literature · Australiana · Australien · International Literature – Rare · World Literature
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 40345AB

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