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(0)Russell Hoban
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Riddley 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 this...
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The images stay with you, long after the book is, done. The toy mouse and his father, on a journey together joined hand in hand; Manny Rat, the nefarious lord of the junkyard, stalking the toy mice for their clockwork parts, Uncle Frog, spouting wisdom and nonsense, from within a glove, and the Bonzo Dog Food dog, repeating himself, endlessly on a label, fading away, to the last visible dog...Russell Hoban's novel is many things: a stirring adventure...