Word: riddley
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Hoban's newest book, about a 12-year-old boy named Riddley Walker, is filled with rhymes and stories that have all the unaffected charm and ring of the Frances stories...
...Riddley Walker is no children's story. From bread and jam and bedtime, Hoban has gone to create a remarkable novel about the most terrifying issue of the grownup world: the abuse of power...
From the first sentence, it is clear that Riddley Walker is not an ordinary story...
...resulting dialect has considerable appeal. Often, Hoban merges two words into one, with fascinating results. A woman is a "wooman," says Riddley, because "she's the 1 with the woom." The leader of the mutant survivors of the great flash is known as "the Ardship of Cambry," one who suffers many an "ardship." The most chilling pun has to do with the central myth of Riddley's time, an adaptation of the only document left from before the flash, the Christian legend of St. Eustace. In "the Eusa story," Eusa tampers with "the Littl Shyning Man" and creates the cataclysm...
FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sábato ∙Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban ∙The Testament, Elie Wiesel ∙Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth...