{"product_id":"riddley-walker-expanded-edition-9780253212344","title":"Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what literature is meant to be. --Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtraordinary . . . 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid. --John Leonard, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive. --Walter Clemons, Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAstounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius. --Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' --Paul Gray, Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10413657\"\u003eRussell Hoban\u003c\/a\u003e\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\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253212344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253212340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC028000\"\u003eScience Fiction | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699266261229,"sku":"9780253212344","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b2ee3eeb-101c-4513-9019-64a9cf393dd6.jpg?v=1649914572","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/riddley-walker-expanded-edition-9780253212344","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}