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"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
"This is what literature is meant tobe." -- Anthony Burgess
"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
"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
"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modernreader from becoming stupid." -- John Leonard, The New YorkTimes
"Highly enjoyable... An intriguing plot... Ferociouslyinventive." -- Walter Clemons, Newsweek
"Astounding...Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realizedwork of genius." -- Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan
"Animaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' -- Paul Gray, Time
Riddley 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.
Genre: Nuclear warfare, Fiction
Format: Paperback
Published: 2002
Pages: 235
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9780747559047
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Our conditions mean the following:
- New - a brand new book
- Almost New - appears new but is actually secondhand.
- Very Good - only minor imperfections such as minor scuffs to edge or cover or a price written in pencil or shop sticker.
- Standard Secondhand - Clearly been read before, but not too bad. We do not recommend these for gifting. Spines usually creased. Could also include creases or folds to cover, some writing such as in the cover or elsewhere, underlining or highlighting, but might not do. Possibly some stains or marks. Similar in general to books in any secondhand shop or charity shop.
- Poor Condition - Usually this will have a specific problem such as writing inside, water damage, missing dust jacket, heavy staining, large creases or cuts. These are readable copies but not nice ones. On other websites this condition is called 'Acceptable' or 'Fair' , but we want to be more honest.
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