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	Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riddley Walker, just turned twelve, was born to be a connexion man. From his father he learned to recite the stories, interpret the omens, and "think on the idear of what things myt be".
		Riddley's curiosity, however, is not to be contained within the horizon of his birth rite.
		Riddley's journey, through a landscape reduced to brutal subsistence by the hubris and hellfire of generations 3000 years dead, provides abundant evidence of the danger of technology.
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	Riddley Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Riddley Walker is a novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980.
		Though its premise is similar to other post-apocalyptic novels such as A Canticle for Leibowitz, Riddley Walker is unusual in its style and focus.
		The narrator, Riddley, speaks in a devolved form of English, the spelling of which has changed considerably and in which many modern words (especially technological and religious terms) have changed in meaning; many of the place names are puns, such as "Dog Et" for Dargate, and "Do It Over" for Dover.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riddley_Walker (383 words)

	Riddley Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riddley Walker is the story of a young man of the same name who comes of age in a long-post-nuclear war Britain.
		Riddley Walker is written entirely in a demotic form of English, long-debased from what we speak today (the story is set thousands of years in the future).
		Riddley Walker isn't as difficult to comprehend as the Wake, but there were plenty of times where I puzzled out a bit of wordplay with the feeling "yes, yes, very clever, now will you get on with the story!".
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	Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name comes from the medieval profession of a ‘walker’- a person who trod on woollen clothes in a bath of urine in order to wash them.
		Walker, Joseph Albert, (1921-1966), American Air Force rocket-plane test pilot; in the X-15 set world altitude records; winner of international and USAF astronauts wings
		Riddley Walker, a 1980 novel by Russell Hoban
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	Riddley Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riddley Walker has a habit of turning its readers into evangelists for the cause, a statement that would no doubt horrify Russell Hoban, a modest voice throughout.
		One can imagine the oral Riddley Walker getting the Seamus Heaney treatment, as it speaks to us from the past and the future with the voice of a poet, whilst its suggestions and its lessons are all too applicable to our present.
		Riddley writes his own story - in his own language - of his life on the outskirts of Canterbury, far in the future and long after nuclear devastation.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/074755904X (705 words)

	Riddley Walker Study Guide by Russell Hoban
		Riddley Walker opens at a crux in the young man's life.
		At twelve, Riddley is expected to behave as a man. The day begins ambivalently with Riddley spearing and killing what may well be the very last wild boar in Inland.
		Passing this crimson scene, Riddley tells a story called "The Hart of the Wood" that explains how charcoal came about and why it is described as the "heart," or "hart," of the wood.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-riddley-walker (220 words)

	Riddley Walker Summary
		Riddley Walker is a novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980.
		Riddley Walker, as the name suggests, is a novel which courts obscurity.
		The first thing to be said about Russell Hoban's apocalyptic fable [Riddley Walker] is that it is compulsive reading.
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		Riddley Walker is Russell Hoban's vision of a post-apocalyptic world and makes for startling reading.
		The story, narrated by Riddley in an invented dialect, commences on his twelfth birthday.
		When you enter Riddley's world you will be transported into a very dark and frightening place that you do and don't know and where you wish, like Riddley, for hope for the future.
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	Walker's' Riddleyspeak sets the pace for comprehension Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Riddley Walker" is more than a language experiment; it is an immersion in another world that Hoban has fashioned by tinkering with the atomic and sub-atomic levels of fiction words and syllables.
		Riddley is a "connexion man," a workaday seer who knits together the deeper meaning of events; the reader is also called on to make connections, to grasp, for example, how Hoban has grafted a myth of atomic destruction on top of the medieval legend of St. Eustace and the stag.
		In the slowness with which it must be absorbed, "Riddley Walker" is also a startling throwback to the oral tradition of storytelling.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20060319/ai_n16209100 (820 words)

	Michael Sullivan's "Notes on Riddley Walker"
		Riddley's people are foragers, and their myths warn them that settling on the land is a step down a dangerous path.
		Riddley, like his father before him, is a "connexion man," interpreting the Eusa shows for his tribe.
		Riddley's friend, Lorna Elswint, is a "tel woman" whose role is to explain signs and portents, often referring to the numbered sections of the Eusa story.
	www.pannis.com /SFDG/specific-Riddley-3.html (763 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Russell Hoban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As in several of his later novels for adults such as the masterpiece Riddley Walker (1980), the story’s overall structure is guided by a visionary statement, which is delivered early in the work and then played out subtly as the plot develops.
		Riddley Walker was critically extolled around the world, it won awards, and was identified by literary historians as a major work of the last century.
		Longer than Riddley Walker, narrated by the ghost of the title character, and set during the First Crusade, Pilgermann is a fictionalized meditation on the search for pattern and meaning in another chancy, violent time.
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	Jim Poyser's Interview with Russell Hoban
		Riddley Walker has just been re-issued in a handsome new volume by Indiana University Press, complete with illustrations by the author, a new afterward, a glossary, and other amenities.
		Riddley Walker is set in the future, hundreds of years after a nuclear war (the "1 Big 1" they call it) decimated civilization.
		In addition to Riddley Walker, Hoban has authored a number of adult novels, including Kleinzeit (1974), Pilgermann (1983), The Medusa Frequency (1987), Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (1998), and Turtle Diary (1975, which was made into a 1985 film starring Ben Kingsley and Glenda Jackson, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter).
	www.ocelotfactory.com /hoban/poyser.html (1381 words)

	Language Log: Folk etymologies and eggcorns in Riddley Walker
		In the world of Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker, it's not clear which phrasal re-analyses like "put the red cord strait" are part of everyone's English, and which are sporadic or particular to the 12-year-old narrator.
		Among the many other folk etymologies (or eggcorns) in Riddley Walker are arper sitting, axel rating, comping station, deacon terminations, farring seakert tryer, inner acting, inner G, pry mincer, some poasyum, and spare the mending.
		However, Riddley Walker is an exception, where the wordplay drew me into the story rather than distracting me from it.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Riddley Walker: Books: Russell Hoban,Will Self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riddley undergoes a 'coming of age' as so many protagonists do over the course of a novel, that his development in an unreal environment is somehow easier to relate to than the majority of other rites of passage literature is an endorsement of the integrity of Hoban's characters and his insight.
		Riddley Walker has a habit of turning its readers into evangelists for the cause, a statement that would no doubt horrify Russell Hoban, a modest voice throughout.
		Some of the populace, including Riddley and a captive race of 'Eusa' people exhibit the ability to read each others' thoughts and also commune with packs of wild dogs who have themselves evolved and are an important part of the Folklore of the indigenous population.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Riddley-Walker-Russell-Hoban/dp/074755904X (1375 words)

	Russell Hoban's RIDDLEY WALKER
		Riddley Walker is twelve years old, and at the outset of the book three remarkable things happen to him that seem to set him on a path toward mystery.
		Riddley is suddenly thrust into prominence as he succeeds his father in the role of "connexion man": the one responsible for giving prophetic interpretations of the traveling puppet shows that serve as a combined religious ceremony, government propaganda tool and public entertainment.
		But Riddley soon learns that all is not as it has been; there's a movement afoot to recover the lost "clevverness" and rediscover the secret of the 1 Big 1.
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	Riddley Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riddley Walker himself is a young boy who gets caught up in a cultural war between hunter-gatherers, farmers, and their primitive government that uses puppet shows to promote their agendas.
		Contrasting the puppet shows are a series of myths told by hunter gatherer story tellers, beautiful and strange explanations of how humans learned to hunt (they were taught by a dog, but in Riddley Walker's time dogs brutally hunt humans) and what they did to survive after the world biosphere was destroyed (cannibalism).
		Humanity is poised to begin the advance again, due to a dwindling wilderness and the accelerating displacement of animistic culture by the messianic cult of Eusa (the mythical creator of the atomic bomb).
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	Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At some point, we were given the beginning of a novel written in an imagined English of the future, in order to study the supposed changes that the language had undergone in the intervening time.
		When I read those first two chapters of "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban, the utter desolation of the contents, combined with the linguistic and narrative ingenuity of the style, gripped me and has not let go until this day.
		Riddley's world is not sexy or enchanting, it's depressing and mystical, as shown most strongly in the form of the mythical martyr/villain Eusa, whose "Eusa Story" cryptically describes the nuclear holocaust (read the text aloud if you have trouble with it):
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	The hart of the wud. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Riddley Walker (Expanded Edition) to look up a phrase I was remembering....
		Riddley Walker is a book I have many fond memories of, but they're vague.
		I told Mike and Myranda at the time that Riddley Walker taught me to think the way I do now, and I don't think that was an exaggeration.
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	Riddley Walker
		In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Walker tells his story in a language as fractured as the world in which he lives.
		Riddley Walker is a slim novel but one which makes many demands on its readers; time and patience pay dividends.
		Riddley Walker, Hoban’s fourth novel, was published to great critical acclaim in 1980 and remains one of his best-known books.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker at Epinions.com
		Riddley Walker wonders what humanity wants him to give.
		The people is this bleak, rainy, gray future know bits and pieces of their history (i.e., us), but often connect the dots all wrong and their very limited knowledge leaves them worse off than if they knew nothing.
		The story in Riddley Walker is basically a slice-of-life piece, almost like an anthropological documentary, that completely and utterly captures the difficult life these people live.
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	Images from 'Riddley Walker' have an afterlife - PittsburghLIVE.com
		But Kemp and his actors are masterful at turning the scattered dirt into a beach of rippled sand or a forest where Riddley runs with a pack of dogs.
		The spine of the action is often unclear, seldom linear and frequently puzzling, leaving you to wonder where it's going and whether it's worth the effort to make the journey.
		What keeps us going is Michael Tornetta's Riddley Walker, who succeeds his father as the connection man who interprets signs and symbols for the populace.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_72410.html (629 words)

	Books \| The book of revelations
		My reactions to Riddley Walker, I guess, evolved in a similar way to those of most readers.
		Riddley Walker was more than just a fellow-traveller, however.
		Riddley Walker's landscapes were made more real by being a non-native speaker in crowded trains, by whole days going by without conversing with anyone.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5119155-110738,00.html (893 words)

	Textbooks.com - Riddley Walker - ISBN10: 0253212340; ISBN13: 9780253212344
		Russell Hoban was born in 1925 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
		Riddley Walker, first published in 1980, is a brilliant, unique, and completely realized work of fiction.
		Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture, change agent, rebel, and artist.
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	SINHAS
		Little is spelled out in Russel Hoban's Riddley Walker, but a great deal is allowed to emerge through the broken-down tongue spoken by the population of "Inland" (England in a dark future).
		Every settlement, every tribe has its own oracles, its "Tell Woman" and its "Connexion Man." Riddley Walker is himself a Connexion Man. His role and his skill is to see the meaning hidden in things and events, and to reveal them to his tribe.
		Beyond the magic of the language, the haunting vision of the future, and the bizarre twists of the story, what makes Riddley Walker remarkable is Hoban's ability to imitate and reveal the universal processes of the mind.
	www.asianstudies.emory.edu /sinhas/kprb0311a.html (3522 words)

	Riddley Walker Summary / Study Guide
		Riddley Walker, the protagonist, encounters as his main antagonist Abel Goodparley, the "Prime Mincer" who stages the government-inspired "Eusa" shows.
		Riddley, as a twelve-year-old, is regarded as a man by his Fents.
		Good-parley has knowledge which he shares with Riddley to make the latter aware of the search for the "1 Big 1" and the "1 little 1,"...
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	Salon.com Life \| Ode to Frances
		"Riddley Walker" is a post-apocalyptic fable set in the fifth millennium, when nuclear holocaust has catapulted civilization back to an Iron Age (the iron, in this ominous case, is dug up and salvaged from the machines of our own time) and language has been corrupted into a degenerated but tellingly poetic pidgin.
		Mulishly dismissive of anything that might be construed as science fiction, I resisted "Riddley Walker." And yet it drew me in.
		I just couldn't shake off Riddley's epiphanic discovery of the hart of the wood in the ruins of Canterbury Cathedral -- in Hoban's resonant linguistic purling, the "hart of the wood" is the "heart of the would," the human will.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/tues/kc/2001/04/17/frances (667 words)

	University of Oklahoma Libraries
		Riddley Walker has haunted me ever since I read it two decades ago.
		Because Riddley Walker asks poignant (and ultimately unanswerable) questions that make the reader reflect on the history of civilizations and why they have disappeared leaving only artifacts and myth.
		Hoban writes of a future, when, as the survivors begin to sift through the detritus of ruins and uncover parts of our civilization, they rediscover the process to make a substance which they worship and incorporate into rituals.
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	Riddley Walker Book at Shop Ireland
		To give the blunt details - that this book is set in Kent, centuries after a nuclear war, and Riddley is a young tribal shaman - makes it sound like standard fantasy.
		The difference is the language: Riddley, as narrator, tells the story in Hoban's brilliantly-imagined future dialect, a worn-down rustic English peppered with garbled nuclear, computer and political jargon from the destroyed 20th century civilisation.
		The theme is the rediscovery of knowledge in a world where intellect has been fogged by the apocalyptic "1 Big 1" so that science, history and folktale have become intermingled in the story of "Eusa".
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