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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition Paperback - 1998

by Russell Hoban

A brilliant, unique, and completely realized work of fiction, "Riddley Walker"--first published in 1980--is set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), where humanity has regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, represented by a language created especially by Hoban for the book.


From the publisher

"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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  • Title Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
  • Author Russell Hoban
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Expanded Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-09-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780253212344 / 0253212340
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Nuclear warfare - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98014996
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/15/2008, Page 32
  • Christian Century, 10/21/2008, Page 30

About the author

Russell Hoban (1925-2011) is the author of numerous children's books, including The Mouse and His Child. Other adult novels include The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Kleinzeit, Turtle Diary, and Pilgermann.

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