Russell Hoban R.I.P.
An extract from Riddley Walker.
One of my favourite books and probably the book that completely changed my attitude to modern literature and tilted my impressionable, teenage head away from the Kerouac/Salinger (and even Joyce/Beckett) route of reading/writing that predominated, at the time.
If you think City of Bohane by Kevin Barry is the cutting edge of modern Irish literature, read Riddley Walker.
I suspect that Kevin Barry did.....
Russell Hoban R.I.P.
An extract from Riddley Walker.
One of my favourite books and probably the book that completely changed my attitude to modern literature and tilted my impressionable, teenage head away from the Kerouac/Salinger (and even Joyce/Beckett) route of reading/writing that predominated, at the time.
If you think City of Bohane by Kevin Barry is the cutting edge of modern Irish literature, read Riddley Walker.
I suspect that Kevin Barry did.....