- The Riders
Infobox Book
name = The Riders
image_caption = First edition cover
author = Tim Winton
cover_artist = Mary Callahan
country = Australia
language = English
genre = Fiction
publisher = Macmillan
pub_date = 1994
media_type = Print (Cloth)
pages = 377
isbn = 9780732907907"The Riders" is a novel by Australian author
Tim Winton published in 1994. It was shortlisted for theBooker Prize in 1995.Plot Summary
"The Riders" tells the story of an Australian man, Fred Scully, and his 7 year old daughter Billie. Scully, as he is known, and his wife Jennifer have planned to move from Australia to a cottage they have purchased in Ireland. His wife and daughter are due to arrive in Ireland but at the airport only Billie arrives, traumatised and unable to tell her father what has happened or why her mother put her on the plane alone. The story then follows Scully and Billie as they travel around
Europe retracing the steps of their previous travel, trying to find Jennifer and work out why she left them.Themes and Symbols
The novel deals with ideas of architecture,
Australia ,Europe , masculinity and trust. It also asks the question of self-identity, and how well you can ever truly know someone else.The book draws on the European mythology of the
Wild Hunt , hence "The Riders".External links
* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/wintont/riders.html Middlemiss.org] Riders Page
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