num_pages: 643
description: Patrick White's brilliant 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. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winner's boldest books.
language: English
title: Riders in the Chariot
titlecomplete: Riders in the Chariot
characters: Mordecai Himmelfarb, Miss Mary Hare, Mrs Jolley, Alf Dubbo, Ruth Godbold
genres: Fiction, Australia, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 894
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award
publisher: NYRB Classics