{"product_id":"hoban-russell-riddley-walker","title":"HOBAN, Russell. Riddley Walker.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHOBAN, Russell.\u003c\/strong\u003e Riddley Walker. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Jonathan Cape\u003c\/i\u003e. 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, in the dust-jacket designed by Mon Mohan, priced £5.95 to front flap, grey endpapers; pp. [10], 220, [2]; a couple of small marks to page block, minor wear to wrapper extremities, red lettering on spine faded (as usual); near fine, in very good wrapper; from the library of the literary scholar Catherine Peters with her pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e A bright first printing of Hoban's dystopian masterpiece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dystopian fable of great vividness and sustained imaginative energy, and one of the stand-out post-war novels in the language, \u003ci\u003eRiddley Walker\u003c\/i\u003e – or rather Riddley Walker – speaks, as the jacket has it, ‘in a language we don't speak but all know’. Hoban, like Anthony Burgess in \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e before him, invented an idiolect and, with it, a world. The voice buttonholes the reader from the very first sentence: ‘On my naming day when I come 12 I to gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.’ Burgess himself wrote of \u003ci\u003eRiddley\u003c\/i\u003e that ‘This is what literature is meant to be’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123118\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56129732116857,"sku":"2123118","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123118.jpg?v=1784215370","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/hoban-russell-riddley-walker","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}