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"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, Time 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 again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.