Riddley Walker

by RussellHoban (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $20.57

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.52

  'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.