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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I tried, I really did. But I couldn't get past 35% I had to keep consulting an online annotated version to help decipher the text. Even beside the spelling, grammar and new words, there were just too many UK-specific terms and words that I'm unfamiliar with (like getting from "helping the qwirys" is derived from the modern "helping the police with their inquiries"- a term for police torture). So it's all just too much work to offset the entertainment value. 'The onlyes power is no power. Wel now I sust that wernt qwite it. It aint that its no power. Its the not strurgling for power." An extraordinary novel of imagination, craft, and heart. What happens when those of us that remain find ourselves wandering stunned and lost? Debating fight or flight? Measuring the degree to which moving on matters? If we're lucky we discover the moment, we release the ego, we let go and find acceptance. We embrace the only dance there is. I loved this book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Riddley’s world will remind you of A Canticle for Leibowitz, and it influenced the far-future Hawaiian dialect in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.
It will be worth your time to read the author’s note and glossary at the end of the expanded edition. ( )