{"product_id":"riddley-walker-book-russell-hoban-9780330266451","title":"Riddley Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what literature is meant to be. --Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtraordinary . . . 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid. --John Leonard, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive. --Walter Clemons, Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAstounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius. --Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' --Paul Gray, Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522842665233,"sku":"GOR001390255","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49530666221841,"sku":"GOR001222125","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49538970485009,"sku":"GOR001223528","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49934136049937,"sku":"CIN0330266454A","price":6.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50077259038993,"sku":"CIN0330266454G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330266454.jpg?v=1751228073","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/riddley-walker-book-russell-hoban-9780330266451","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}