**Soon to be a movie adaptation starring Brad Pitt**
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
'An intricate, magnificently readable novel' - Sunday Telegraph
'Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating' - Independent
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start.
But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, only his small daughter steps off the plane . . .
So begins Tim Winton's The Riders, the story of Scully’s desperate journey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didn’t know.
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Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. **Soon to be a movie adaptation starring Brad Pitt**Shortlisted for the Booker Prize'An intricate, magnificently readable novel' - Sunday Telegraph'Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating' - IndependentFred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start.But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, only his small daughter steps off the plane . . .So begins Tim Winton's The Riders, the story of Scullys desperate journey across Europe, trying to track down the wife he comes to realize he didnt know. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR009817027
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