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Author:

Hoban, Russell.

Title:

Riddley Walker / afterword, notes, and glossary by Russell Hoban.

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

235 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Canterbury (England)--Fiction.
Regression (Civilization)--Fiction.
Nuclear warfare--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
Science fiction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780253212344 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253212340 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

98014996

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)