{"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\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","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625510146322,"sku":"9780253212344","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_999a91bc-24c2-4f0f-ad9e-4d955d3da931.jpg?v=1732630953","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/riddley-walker-expanded-edition-9780253212344","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}