Synopses & Reviews
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.