Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban
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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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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 aspectsPlaces
Canterbury (England), Ramsgate, Dover, England, CanterburyShowing 3 featured editions. View all 20 editions?
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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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