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'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, TimeRiddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized wor

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780253212344
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4.02 / 5 (4,830 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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