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Title: RIDERS by Tim Winton ISBN: 0684822776 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 23 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89
Rating: 4
Summary: Who are the Riders, really?
Comment: I really enjoyed this book for several different reasons. First, I found Scully to be a likable character, though some of his choices were rather unlikable. He seems to genuinely love his wife and daughter and his devotion to them is endearing. His daughter, Billie, is one of the more interesting seven-year-old characters I've encountered and I did struggle a bit with the fact that she was only seven. So mature for her age! Pete-the-Post is another endearing character that, had the book taken a different turn, I would have loved to know more about. But this book isn't about Pete or his brother or any of the other secondary characters. This book isn't even about the missing wife. I found this book to be about anticipation, about waiting for something that may never appear, whatever that is.
Rating: 3
Summary: A compelling, emotional read
Comment: This book, while not perfect, definitely holds the reader's attention from beginning to end. The main character, Scully, is a modern-day Quasimodo, a misfit in a world of masks and deception, someone who has but sheer will and a good heart--and a savagely loving daughter--to go on. His quest to find his wife who has apparently abandoned her husband and daughter is a dramatic, at times breathless, depiction of what it's like to realize one knows little about those one thought one knew the most. The writing occasionally annoyed me (too self-conscious at times for my taste) but I was willing to let it slide, so harrowing did I find Scully's journey. And as much as I adore Paris, having lived there a year I must, hélas, attest to the accuracy of his less-then flattering portrait of the City of Light.
Rating: 4
Summary: A HARD RIDE
Comment: THE RIDERS By Tim Winton A HARD RIDE
Fred Scully is not what you would term a romantic hero in the traditional sense of the word. He is more of a stumble bum/antihero, the kind you would probably avoid eye contact with. In the skilful hands of Winton however, he assumes epic proportions as he struggles to reclaim his shattered life.
An expatriate Australian, he has worked diligently to set up his new home in Ireland in preparation for the return of his wife and daughter from Western Australia. However when the fateful day arrives only his daughter is there to meet him at Shannon airport. Scully is as dumbfounded as the authorities as to the whereabouts of his wife Jennifer.
Thus begins a tale or two as Scully and Billie try to trace her movements across Europe. It is a Europe far removed from popular fiction. This is a Europe of the downtrodden and the dispossessed, the avant garde of the New Order. Scully battles prejudice, greed and apathy in his attempts to discover Jennifer's whereabouts and in the process discovers love in the most unlikely place. The relationship between father and daughter is a series of defining moments that takes the idol of the sensitive new age guy and lays him to rest. Here is earthiness and tenderness once denied the snag, skillfully and artfully told.
A powerful read, it is a tribute to Winton that he has captured the entire continent in the scope of a novel such as The Riders. I found it impossible to put down.
Written by Alastair Rosie
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Title: Cloudstreet : A Novel by Tim Winton ISBN: 0743234413 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Dirt Music : A Novel by Tim Winton ISBN: 0743228022 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Shallows by Tim Winton ISBN: 1555971938 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: That Eye, The Sky : A Novel by Tim Winton ISBN: 0743234421 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: BLUEBACK : A CONTEMPORARY FABLE by Tim Winton ISBN: 0684845652 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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