Riddley Walker

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832240
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Riddley Walker by : Russell Hoban

Download or read book Riddley Walker written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.

Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008514
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition written by Russell Hoban and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A hero with Huck Finn's heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy. . . . Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and—this matters most—intensely ponderable." —Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review "This is what literature is meant to be." —Anthony Burgess "Russell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and style. . . . The conviction and consistency are total. Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece." —Anthony Thwaite, Observer "Extraordinary . . . Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." —John Leonard, The New York Times "Highly enjoyable . . . An intriguing plot . . . Ferociously inventive." —Walter Clemons, Newsweek "Astounding . . . Hoban's soaring flight of imagination is that golden rarity, a dazzlingly realized work of genius." —Jane Clapperton, Cosmopolitan "An imaginative intensity that is rare in contemporary fiction.' —Paul Gray, Time Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. 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.

Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253212340
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition written by Russell Hoban and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed story is set in an England that has suffered a nuclear holocaust. Society has regressed to an Iron Age, semi-literate state represented by the special language that the author created especially for this book.

A Gift Upon the Shore

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Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626811008
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis A Gift Upon the Shore by : M.K. Wren

Download or read book A Gift Upon the Shore written by M.K. Wren and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A poignant expression of the durability, grace, and potential of the human spirit” set in a post-nuclear dystopia where words are worth killing for (Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series). By the late twenty-first century, civilization has nearly been destroyed by overpopulation, economic chaos, horrific disease, and a global war that brought a devastating nuclear winter. On the Oregon coast, two women—writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow—embark on an audacious project to help save future generations: the preservation of books, both their own and any they can find at nearby abandoned houses. For years, they labor in solitude. Then they encounter a young man who comes from a group of survivors in the South. They call their community the Ark. Rachel and Mary see the possibility of civilization rising again. But they realize with trepidation that the Arkites believe in only one book—the Judeo-Christian bible—and regard all other books as blasphemous. And those who go against the word of God must be cleansed from the Earth . . . In this “thought-provoking” novel of humanity, hope, and horror, M.K. Wren displays “her passionate concern with what gives life meaning (Library Journal).

Soonchild

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763659207
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Soonchild by : Russell Hoban

Download or read book Soonchild written by Russell Hoban and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering that his soon-to-be-born first offspring, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb, Sixteen-Face John, an Arctic Circle shaman, embarks on a fantastical journey to different eras and in the forms of animals and demons to find the songs that will inspire the soonchild's birth.

Dark Eden

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804138699
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Eden by : Chris Beckett

Download or read book Dark Eden written by Chris Beckett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say—and the Family must only wait for the travelers to return. But young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark…and discover the truth about their world. Already remarkably acclaimed in the UK, Dark Eden is science fiction as literature; part parable, part powerful coming-of-age story, set in a truly original alien world of dark, sinister beauty--rendered in prose that is at once strikingly simple and stunningly inventive.

The Turtle Diary

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408835282
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Turtle Diary by : Russell Hoban

Download or read book The Turtle Diary written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aquarium at the London Zoo, three sea turtles swim endlessly in 'their little bedsitter of ocean'. Two lonely people, William G and Neaera H, become obsessed with the turtles' captivity, and resolve to rescue them and release them in to the sea. William's and Neaera's diaries tell the story of how they achieve the turtles' freedom, and in the process re-define their own lives.

The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357025
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic by : Simone Celine Marshall

Download or read book The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic written by Simone Celine Marshall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that uncover medieval themes and tropes that have previously been “unattended”, that is, neglected or ignored. A historical span of a century is covered, from musical modernist Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal (1882) to Russell Hoban’s speculative fiction Riddley Walker (1980), and themes of Arthurian literature, scholastic philosophy, Irish legends, classical philology, dream theory, Orthodox theology and textual exegesis are brought into conversation with key Modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh and Eugene Ionesco. These scholarly investigations are original, illuminating, and often delightful.

Swastika Night

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Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9780935312560
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis Swastika Night by : Katharine Burdekin

Download or read book Swastika Night written by Katharine Burdekin and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a "feudal Europe seven centuries into post-Hitlerian society, Burdekin's novel explores the connection between gender and political power and anticipates modern feminist science fiction."--Cover.

The Medusa Frequency

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408835681
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Medusa Frequency written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inexplicable message flashed onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him 'to those places in your head that you can't get to on your own' - and plunges him into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas.

The Island of Second Sight

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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781468307139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Second Sight written by Albert Vigoleis Thelen and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN Translation Prize

Strandloper

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448162858
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Strandloper by : Alan Garner

Download or read book Strandloper written by Alan Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary. 'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times

Feed

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763662623
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Feed by : M.T. Anderson

Download or read book Feed written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. This new edition contains new back matter and a refreshed cover. A National Book Award finalist.

Pilgermann

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747556407
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Pilgermann written by Russell Hoban and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Pilgermann here. I call myself Pilgermann, it's a convenience. I don't know what I am now .'

The Stain

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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564780850
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stain by : Rikki Ducornet

Download or read book The Stain written by Rikki Ducornet and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In?"The Stain"?Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.

Year of the Orphan

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628729945
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Book Synopsis Year of the Orphan by : Daniel Findlay

Download or read book Year of the Orphan written by Daniel Findlay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut— also for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker. In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System. It is an outpost whose sole purpose is survival—refuge from the hulking, eyeless things they call Ghosts and other creatures that hunt beyond the fortress walls. Sold as a child, then raised hard in the System, the Orphan has a mission. She carries secrets about the destruction that brought the world to its knees. And she's about to discover that the past still holds power over the present. Given an impossible choice, will the Orphan save the only home she knows or see it returned to dust? Both paths lead to blood, but whose will be spilled? With propulsive pacing, a rich, broken language all its own, and a protagonist whose grit and charisma are matched by a relentless drive to know, The Year of the Orphan is a thriller of the future you won’t want to put down.

Ninety-nine Novels

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ninety-nine Novels written by Anthony Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: