{"product_id":"riddley-walker-expanded-edition-expanded","title":"Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition (Expanded)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is what literature is meant to be.\" --Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid.\" --John Leonard, The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive.\" --Walter Clemons, Newsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius.\" --Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' --Paul Gray, Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943373013223,"sku":"9780253212344","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_3fba9a68-9c87-45de-aec5-90631fa78cba.jpg?v=1775320841","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/riddley-walker-expanded-edition-expanded","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}