{"product_id":"riddley-walker-expanded-edition-9780253212344","title":"Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is what literature is meant to be.\" --Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid.\" --John Leonard, The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive.\" --Walter Clemons, Newsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius.\" --Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' --Paul Gray, Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiddley 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Russell Hoban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253212344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2008 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2008 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell Hoban (1925-2011) is the author of numerous children's books, including The Mouse and His Child. Other adult novels include The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Kleinzeit, Turtle Diary, and Pilgermann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Russell Hoban \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47645042639005,"sku":"9780253212344","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_a8bcf9f9-7544-49ce-b45f-af976a502118.jpg?v=1770750274","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/riddley-walker-expanded-edition-9780253212344","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}