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Ferociously inventive." -Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." -John Leonard, The New York Times

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 Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." -Anthony Thwaite, Observer The conviction and consistency are total. "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. "This is what literature is meant to be." -Anthony Burgess

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