{"product_id":"riddley-walker-expanded-edition-by-hoban-russell","title":"Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition by Hoban, Russell","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253212340\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hoban, Russell\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \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\"This is what literature is meant to be.\" -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.\" -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.\" -Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World\"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid.\" -John Leonard, The New York Times\"Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive.\" -Walter Clemons, Newsweek\"Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius.\" -Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan\"An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' -Paul Gray, TimeRiddley 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\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49679250129136,"sku":"NEW0253212340","price":16.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/riddley-walker-expanded-edition-by-hoban-russell","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}