Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker

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Synopsis

'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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Expanded Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07 Oct 2002

ISBN 10: 074755904X
ISBN 13: 9780747559047
Book Overview: Russell Hoban's finest and hugely-acclaimed novel published by Bloomsbury for the first time, as part of an on-going Russell Hoban promotion, alongside his new novel The Bat Tattoo With an introduction by Will Self and a new afterword, notes and glossary

Media Reviews
'The book has an evangelical effect on people ... Riddley is an absorbing character, Hoban's language has a fantastic, rough poetry and the post-apocalyptic world is chilling and convincing' Rachel Seiffert, Observer 'Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and of style ... funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece' Observer
Author Bio
Russell Hoban is the author of many extraordinary novels including ANGELICA'S GROTTO, also available from Bloomsbury. He has also written some classic books for children including THE MOUSE AND HIS CHILD and THE FRANCES books. He lives in London.