- Published: 29 April 2021
- ISBN: 9780141995427
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Riddley Walker
- Published: 29 April 2021
- ISBN: 9780141995427
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
You are syntactically and emotionally and politically absolutely in the book's spell. The way it changes is unbelievable; it is a living thing.
Max Porter
Extraordinary... a hero with Huck Finn's heart, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy... Fiercely imagined and intensely ponderable.
New York Times Book Review
Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and of style ... funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece.
The Observer
Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel people will be reading for a long, long time.
Washington Post
This is what literature is meant to be.
Anthony Burgess
The strongest, most desolate and bewildered voice in modern fiction. In the mental silence that followed the closing of the last page, I wanted to applaud, through tears.
Cosmopolitan
The book has an evangelical effect on people ... Riddley is an absorbing character, Hoban's language has a fantastic, rough poetry and the post-apocalyptic world is chilling and convincing.
Rachel Seiffert, The Observer