Riddley Walker - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and of style ... funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece. - The Observer

You are syntactically and emotionally and politically absolutely in the book's spell. The way it changes is unbelievable; it is a living thing. - Max Porter

Extraordinary... a hero with Huck Finn's heart, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy... Fiercely imagined and intensely ponderable. - New York Times Book Review

Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel people will be reading for a long, long time. - Washington Post

This is what literature is meant to be. - Anthony Burgess

The strongest, most desolate and bewildered voice in modern fiction. In the mental silence that followed the closing of the last page, I wanted to applaud, through tears. - Cosmopolitan

The book has an evangelical effect on people ... Riddley is an absorbing character, Hoban's language has a fantastic, rough poetry and the post-apocalyptic world is chilling and convincing. - Rachel Seiffert, The Observer