Riddley Walker

Author Russell Hoban
Narrator Richard Pearce
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 1 January 1970
Run Time 8 hours and 35 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Classic science fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction.

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'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.

'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess

'Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece' Observer

'A timeless portrayal of the human condition ... frightening and uncanny' Will Self

'A book that I could read every day forever and still be finding things' Max Porter

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Critics 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

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

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.

The Observer

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