Includes an afterword, notes, and a glossary

• "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." New York Times Book Review
• "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." Observer
• "Extraordinary….Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." Washington Post Book World
• "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." New York Times
• "Rich, intricate….Russell Hoban has put many things right, just right, in a book where at first sight all the words are wrong, and at second sight not a sentence is to be missed." Hugh Kenner

• "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." New York Times Book Review
• "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." Observer
• "Extraordinary….Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel that people will be reading for a long, long time." Washington Post Book World
• "Stunning, delicious, designed to prevent the modern reader from becoming stupid." New York Times
• "Rich, intricate….Russell Hoban has put many things right, just right, in a book where at first sight all the words are wrong, and at second sight not a sentence is to be missed." Hugh Kenner