Bibliograph

Riddley Walker, afterword, notes, and glossary by Russell Hoban

Type

Label

Riddley Walker, afterword, notes, and glossary by Russell Hoban

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Riddley Walker

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

afterword, notes, and glossary by Russell Hoban

Summary

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 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 this masterpiece of 20th century literature again or for the first time

Target audience

adult

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