Never enough Riddley Walker

If you know me, you know I am a long-time fan of Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban. Over the decades, I must have bought 15 copies and given most of them away. In fact, last Friday at the Friends of the Library book sale, I picked up another hardcover copy for $3. Bargain!

One can never have too many copies of Riddley Walker. To lend, to give as gifts, or to leave on the bus stop bench for that unsuspecting reader to find, steam through, and forever be changed.

This review of Riddley Walker, by Eli Bishop, is worth noting for its deep appreciation of the original novel, its notes about the novel's context within the literary genres of fiction and science fiction, and its description of the advantages of drawbacks of the newest edition of this previously out-of-print classic, republished in 1998 by Indiana University Press.

For a Russell Hoban fan page on Facebook, go here. Or not.

Comments

[mossum]

it wer 1 ov the bes storyes evr tole by Eusa nor any1 so sez eye

[Kevin]

putcha putcha putcha. so turble tasty.

[lainieqs]

Yay, 2 peepul who geddit.