{"product_id":"riddley-walker-expanded-edition-russell-hoban-paperback","title":"Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition -- Russell Hoban, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . 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. . . . 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 Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. 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. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Russell Hoban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9\/22\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.4\" H x 5.5\" L x 0.6\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780253212344\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67824115679536,"sku":"9780253212344","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780253212344.jpg?v=1790008852","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/riddley-walker-expanded-edition-russell-hoban-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}