Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker
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Introduction by Adam Roberts, afterword by David Mitchell. Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Riddley Walker - orphaned, outcast and quite alone - goes on a journey through a post-apocalyptic England, telling his tale in language which reflects the decayed world around him. Quotes: it reads as fresh and vivid today as it has since it was first publ…
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Introduction by Adam Roberts, afterword by David Mitchell. Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Riddley Walker - orphaned, outcast and quite alone - goes on a journey through a post-apocalyptic England, telling his tale in language which reflects the decayed world around him. Quotes: it reads as fresh and vivid today as it has since it was first published - Will Self Suffused with Melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel people will be reading for a long, long time - Washington Post I wanted to applaud, through tears - Cosmopolitan Bio: Russell Hoban (1925-2011) was born in America but found his true home in London, where he lived for the last 42 years of his life. Author of highly acclaimed literary fiction, children's books, genre fiction and non-fiction, he defied all categorisation.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-575-11951-2
- EAN: 9780575119512
- Produktnummer: 13321453
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H16.5 cm x B20.6 cm x D2.3 cm 330 g
- Gewicht: 330
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Russell Hoban (1925 - 2011)Russell Hoban's parents were immigrants from the Ukraine. His father was the advertising manager of a newspaper, as well as the director of a Philadelphia drama guild. Russell served in the US infantry during the Second World War. After the war he taught art in New York and Connecticut. His first novel was published in 1958 and he has now produced more than 50 books for adults and children. In 1969, he moved to London where he lived for over forty years until his death in December 2011.
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