Riddley Walker
By: afterword, notes, and glossary by Russell Hoban.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction; Nuclear warfare -- Fiction; Slaves -- Fiction; Canterbury (England) -- Fiction
Description: 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.--From publisher description.