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“The joy of Riddley Walker is that it’s a fully realized universe and it never lets up – it’s very, very difficult all the way through….Riddley Walker is one of those books I don’t remember those sorts of things about – all I remember is the horror. The horror of the language and the fires and the lost-ness and the violence. They run through it the whole time.” Read more...
Max Porter on the Books That Shaped Him
Max Porter, Novelist
“Everyone is speaking in a kind of eccentric, quasi-Chaucerian idiom. That is what I really liked about it – the unfamiliarity of the language because it is set in this post-apocalyptic world.” Read more...
James Miller, Literary Scholar
