Riddley Walker
by:
Russell Hoban (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780224018517 (0224018515)
Publish date: December 27th 1987
Publisher: Random House UK
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
"People ask me how I got from St. Eustace to Riddley Walker and all I can say is that it's a matter of being friends with your head. Things come into the mind and wait to hook up with other things; there are places that can heighten your responses, and if you let your head go its own way it might, w...
This book did my head in. To deliberately mangle punctuation, grammar, spelling, and syntax nearly beyond recognition is a lot harder than it sounds, and even harder still to come out with a cohesive, fascinating story at the end of it. Russel Hoban did it brilliantly. The world building is fantas...
The language style (not writing but language) is very peculiar and unusual. This was done purposefully by the writer to show the future, long after the nuclear wars when there're left no social and cultural prerequisites to speak grammatically correct. So it may cause some confusion while reading bu...
http://www.errorbar.net/rw/ (h/t bonnie)
There’s a point in Riddley Walker where Riddley writes, “You try to word the big things and they tern ther backs on you,” which is a bit how I feel trying to write about this book. There are so many “big things” going on in it that it’s difficult to decide what to raise in a short review. But I will...
6 years ago
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