riddley walker
NOW IN A NEW EDITION!
A hero with Huck Finn’s heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. The conviction and consistency are total. Publication date: 9/1/1998Format: paper 256 pages,5.5 x 8.5 $13.99Russell 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. , Summer 2008 $18.00 Riddley WalkerNow in a New Edition!Expanded EditionRussell HobanDistribution: U.S. and Canada“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"Russell Hoban's 'Riddley Walker' is that rare novel that can be loved by doomster geeks and literary readers alike. It's narrated in a language burnt to its rudiments by nuclear holocaust and revived into new forms by survivors in England who live as hunters, and who believe in a past that's half history, half myth." —Michael Helm, NuvoFictionRiddley WalkerBarnes & NobleEuropeLiterature and Literary Studies