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The Riders

By: Tim Winton
Narrated by: Stanley McGeagh
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The Riders, the novel that brought Tim Winton his first Booker Prize shortlisting, charts an odyssey across Europe, a transfixing journey through the underworld of every lover's nightmare.

Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and daughter. After two years in Europe, they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's waited, sweated on this reunion. He does not like to be alone—he's that kind of man.

The flight lands, the doors at the airport hiss open...Scully's life falls apart.

1995, The Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific Region), Winner

1995, The Man Booker Prize, Short-listed

1995, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Short-listed

1994, Australian Book of the Year, Short-listed

1994, Australian Book of the Year, Short-listed

©1994 Tim Winton (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Aviation
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how crazy and human. it's not one to listen lightly. lyrical descriptions and a deep listen .

it tears your heart

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A silly and senseless story. Monotonous theme without direction or clarity of what the story was about.

Silly

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this novel seemed almost sadistic in the way it depicted its protagonist. not very much made sense and in the end there was no satisfaction to any of the character arc. The longer I listened to it the less I liked it. if you were looking for a diversion this is not the book for you.

Pointless and frustrating

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