Patrick Whites brilliant 1961 novel set in an Australian suburb intertwinesfour deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist a Holocaust survivor abeatific washe... » 

Patrick Whites brilliant 1961 novel set in an Australian suburb intertwinesfour deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist a Holocaust survivor abeatific washerwoman and a childlike heiress are each blessedand strickenwith visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend themachinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating pure and profanesubtle and sweeping Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winnersboldest books. «