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Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban...
RIDDLEY WALKER by Russell Hoban...
Patchwork language is an essential part of Author Russell Hoban's story. Hoban, 55, who has written children's books and three previous novels, sets Riddley Walker in the southeast corner of England, some 2,500 years into a badly damaged and degraded future. A nuclear holocaust, which occurred near the end of the 20th century, has forced civilization to start over again at ground zero. Progress has been slow. People huddle together in small enclaves, fighting off the elements, packs of killer dogs and occasionally, one another. A semblance of central government exists in the person...
Such passages give the novel an imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction. Seldom are such eerie, dreamed-up landscapes made so accessible. Thanks to the Bomb, all people are now entitled to their very own apocalyptic visions, whether they want them or not. Russell Hoban's nightmare is one that deserves to be passed along -ByPaulGray