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Russell Hoban
If I you'd asked me yesterday I wouldn't have known whether or not Russell Hoban was still alive. I'm very sorry to know today that he's dead, though. Riddley Walker was one of the Big Books of my teen years. When I try to describe it to people who haven't read it, it sounds just awful ("post-apocalyptic Kent, made-up language, etc"), but he succeeded where almost any other writer would have come a cropper. That book, at least, will live.
(Also, I really like Bread and Jam for Frances, even though Frances doesn't look like a "proper" badger.)
(Also, I really like Bread and Jam for Frances, even though Frances doesn't look like a "proper" badger.)
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It's a remarkable book.
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I didn't find Riddley Walker till I was at university, and while it didn't have as much effect on my set of friends as The Big U, it was up there.
---L.
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But that's where I live! :o)
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Bah. I had that happen with Christopher Fry.
(Also, I really like Bread and Jam for Frances, even though Frances doesn't look like a "proper" badger.)
Wait: seriously, those are the same person? The books illlustrated by Lilian Hoban?
Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is by the person who wrote Riddley Walker?
My parents gave me those books when I was extremely small! Now I'm going to be personally devastated about this!
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Yes, although again I didn't know it was his.
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Eat up your string bean, Gloria.
What i am... is... tired of jam.
(bits from my mind. Book is on my bookshelf but I didn't take it down yet.)