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The Riders [Kindle Edition]

Tim Winton
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)

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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, searching for the one person he thought he'd never lose. 'A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory’ Daily Telegraph ‘Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating’ Independent

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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

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 616 KB
  • Print Length: 372 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0330339427
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (9 May 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004ZX9K1S
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #26,023 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars What an odd book 13 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
There is so much that is strange and unresolved in this book. So many questions are posed and left unanswered, that I feel I ought to hate it. In theory it is in many ways deeply unsatisfying and I don't even particularly like Scully as a character. But somehow The Riders continues to haunt me and stay with me in a way that many novels don't - i can't put my finger on what makes it work, but despite everything it does. Perhaps it is that you question why on earth Scully does what he does, and nag away at the problem, rather than just reject it as implausible. Don't read this with any expectations and you'll probably get on with it better: be prepared to be provoked and troubled. What is clear though is that Tim Winton remains a serious and challenging writer - I'm just about to read Dirt Music so very curious to see what that is like.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest books I've ever read 25 Sep 2002
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Format:Paperback
And I've read it three times.

The characters are real people - imperfect, irrational, insecure.
There are no trite endings.
I loaned it to my mother while she was visiting me, and at 1pm in the morning I found her in the kitchen with the light on, tears streaming down her face - "I can't put it down, what's going to happen next.." This book tapped into my mother's worst fear, that her partner might desert her.

My favourite character is Billy, the young daughter. There are few adult books out there that describe children in such non-patronising terms. And her relationship with her father is something to aspire to.

This book is different, thought-provoking, and life-affirming. Give it a chance.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Winton is clearly an outstanding writer. I could not put this book down, and yet I continually felt a little at sea, wishing someone would explain to me what was going on. The book is written with such passion that the reader enters into a kind of situational madness, in which she or he descends with the protagonist, Scully, into the emotionally-charged confusion brought about when his wife disappears. Apparently she has abandoned him and their child, but why, and for what? Scully chases around Europe with their child as he tries to find his wife and the answers to these questions. I only wish Winton had cleared up more of the mystery.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A garden path?
The relationship between fictional characters and their imagined surroundings is always problematic, even when it is intended to be quite literal. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Philip Spires
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Been told great for those who can read. Does exactly what I bought it for! uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uhuh
Published 2 months ago by MR K P LEWIS
5.0 out of 5 stars As With Real Life - The Answers are Elusive
Tim Winton's prose is always stunning - his command of language, character and location get me really excited. Read more
Published 11 months ago by J. Mccready
4.0 out of 5 stars Winton's Haunting Tale Of Loss
Australian Tim Winton's 1994 novel The Riders is a beautifully written tale of a husband's (and father's) loss, as, accompanied only by his seven year old daughter, he goes in... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Keith M
4.0 out of 5 stars weird but good.
I strange plot with a kind of nothing ending, but quite well written. The plot relies far to heavily on suspense - not the sign of a literary classic - reading a second time is an... Read more
Published 12 months ago by OKintheUK
4.0 out of 5 stars the angst is the whole point of this novel
whilst it's been years since i've read the riders, i remember the confusion and the frustration. in the end, nothing was explained overtly and a resolution would have killed the... Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2011 by paperbacks forever
2.0 out of 5 stars The Riders - What now?
The Riders is possibly the most frustrating book I have ever read. Having finished it I am just left wondering what, who and why. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2010 by john1976
1.0 out of 5 stars Spare yourself the trouble of reading this utter drivel!
Not worthy of even one star!

Despite being an avid reader, this is the first time that I have contributed a review to this site. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2010 by Helen Dalby
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
This book was a disappointment, especially having enjoyed Tim Winton's Cloudstreet hugely. The worst thing was knowing from the outset exactly what was going to happen - if you've... Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2009 by B. Seed
1.0 out of 5 stars Reading time I'll never get back
This is one of the most pretentious, pointless novels written. It lacks any coherence of plot, and is ultimately a tedious and self indulgent piece of work. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2008 by dawnreader
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