"A hero with Huck Finn\'s heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy....
Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author..
Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist.
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.
One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through.
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.
Ferociously inventive." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding...
An intriguing plot...
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...
Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." --Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary...
The conviction and consistency are total.
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.... "A hero with Huck Finn\'s heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy...
