An edition of Riddley Walker (1980)

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An edition of Riddley Walker (1980)

Riddley Walker

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  • ★★★★ ★ 4.8 (5 ratings)
  • 60 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state--and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.--From publisher description.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Language
/languages/eng
Pages
235

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Subjects

Fiction, Nuclear warfare, Regression (Civilization), Slaves, Fiction in English, General, Non-Classifiable, Science Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction, science fiction, general, England, fiction, Slaves, fiction, American literature, Great britain, biography, Enslaved persons, fiction, Social aspects

Places

Canterbury (England), Ramsgate, Dover, England, Canterbury

Times

Undefined apocalyptic future.

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Riddley Walker
1998, Indiana University Press
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Riddley Walker
1982, Washington Square
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Riddley Walker: a novel
1980, Summit Books
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Edition Notes

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Bloomington

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.O336 R5 1998, PS3558.O336R5 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
235 p. :
Number of pages
235

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL355225M
ISBN 10
0253334489, 0253212340
LCCN
98014996
OCLC/WorldCat
38573921
LibraryThing
44537
Goodreads
1200523
776573

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL74293W

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Engrossing post apocalyptic book that told entirely in a vividly degenerated post-English that the reader is left to decipher as they find their way through the novel.

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