Title Riders in the chariot / a novel by Patrick White

Published London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
ADPML SPC	827.03 W587 A6/R 1961		LIB USE ONLY

Description 552 pages ; 21 cm Summary "Patrick White's 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed - and stricken - with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men."--BOOK JACKET Notes "Jacket illustration is taken from a painting by Sidney Nolan"--Dust jacket Signed by author 1 copy. ANU Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, 1961 Restricted Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction. Artists -- Fiction. Australian fiction -- 20th century. Australian literature. English fiction. Holocaust survivors -- Fiction. Laundresses -- Fiction. Single women -- Fiction. Suburban life -- Fiction. SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111545 Genre/Form Psychological fiction. Fiction. LC no. sit07000778 ISBN 014002185X 1590170024 (paperback) 8000059622

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