num_pages: 213
description: "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 andâ€”this matters mostâ€”intensely ponderable." â€”Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." â€”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." â€”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." â€”Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." â€”John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable... An intriguing plot... Ferociously inventive." â€”Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding... Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." â€”Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' â€”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 stateâ€”and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his cultureâ€”rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.
language: English
title: Riddley Walker
titlecomplete: Riddley Walker
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 7951
places: Canterbury, Kent, England
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador