Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
  • Published:
    Oct-1998
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Science Fiction
  • Pages:
    256
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"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and -- this matters most -- intensely ponderable." -- Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review

"This is what literature is meant to be." -- Anthony Burgess

"Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. . . . The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." -- Anthony Thwaite, Observer

"Extraordinary . . . Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." -- John Leonard, The New York Times

"Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive." -- Walter Clemons, Newsweek

"Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." -- Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan

"An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' -- Paul Gray, Time

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state -- and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture -- rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.
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    • Sep-1998
    • Indiana University Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0253212340
    • ISBN13: 9780253212344
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    • Sep-1998
    • Indiana University Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0253008514
    • ISBN13: 9780253008510
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    • Sep-1998
    • Indiana University Press
    • eBook (Kindle)



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