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Riddley Walker / afterword, notes, and glossary by Russell Hoban.

by Hoban, Russell.

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Indiana University Press, 1998.

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9780253212344 (trade pbk)

235 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.

This book was originally published in 1980 by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. and by Summit Books.

"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 boyh the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture -- rebel, change agent, and artist of change. 'Walker is my name and I am the same, Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where theyve took me and walking them now on his paper the same.' The language has intimidated some readers, though it is easily decipherable with attentive reading. As an aid to readers, Hoban has now added an afterword, samples of his original working notes,and a glossary."--Publisher.

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