![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() "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. ![]()
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