Riddley Walker (Paperback)
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Riddley Walker (Paperback)

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Paperback 256 Pages
Published: 24/05/2012

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A unique specimen in the annals of speculative literature, Hoban’s breath-taking examination of the power of myth and the ideas of progress is unforgettably narrated by the eponymous Riddley in a broken, primal vernacular.

Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome. 

Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, Riddley Walker is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408832240
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 189 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm

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“The Greatest Oddity Novel Ever?”

This is a contender for my favourite book.

Original in every way.
The central device of making the reader read a language derived from English and used hundreds of years from now makes the curious action, disturbing... More

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“Superb!”

One of the greatest books ever written. Glad to see these Hobans reissued. Sensational.

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“A little salt and lots to savour”

Written in a "wore out" tongue - a fascinating, semi-Chaucerian future Kentish - Riddley Walker is one of the strangest and most haunting novels ever written. Think Clockwork Orange and Lord of the Flies... More

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