"A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco andjokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and --this matters most -- intensely ponderable." -- Benjamin DeMott, The New YorkTimes Book Review

"This is what literature is meant tobe." -- Anthony Burgess

"Russell Hoban has brought offan extraordinary feat of imagination and style.... The conviction and consistencyare total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is amasterpiece." -- Anthony Thwaite, Observer

"Extraordinary... Suffused with melancholy andwonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be readingfor a long, long time." -- Michael Dirda, Washington Post BookWorld

"Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modernreader from becoming stupid." -- John Leonard, The New YorkTimes

"Highly enjoyable... An intriguing plot... Ferociouslyinventive." -- Walter Clemons, Newsweek

"Astounding...Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realizedwork of genius." -- Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan

"Animaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' -- Paul Gray, Time

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realizedwork of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every timethrough. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hobanhas imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state -- andinvented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and theStephen Dedalus of his culture -- rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or forthe first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by theauthor.