{"product_id":"riddley-walker-1","title":"Riddley Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco andjokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and --this matters most -- intensely ponderable.\" -- Benjamin DeMott, The New YorkTimes Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is what literature is meant tobe.\" -- Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Russell Hoban has brought offan extraordinary feat of imagination and style.... The conviction and consistencyare total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is amasterpiece.\" -- Anthony Thwaite, Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Extraordinary... Suffused with melancholy andwonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be readingfor a long, long time.\" -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post BookWorld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modernreader from becoming stupid.\" -- John Leonard, The New YorkTimes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Highly enjoyable... An intriguing plot... Ferociouslyinventive.\" -- Walter Clemons, Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Astounding...Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realizedwork of genius.\" -- Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Animaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' -- Paul Gray, Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realizedwork of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every timethrough. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hobanhas imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state -- andinvented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and theStephen Dedalus of his culture -- rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or forthe first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by theauthor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nuclear warfare, Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780747559047\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hoban, Russell,Self, Will","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £3.36","offer_id":48126201594033,"sku":"SB-074755904X-C3","price":3.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/074755904X.jpg?v=1793495817","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/riddley-walker-1","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}