Word: riddley
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FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙ Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak ∙ Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban ∙ The Testament, Elie Wiesel ∙The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas ∙ Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth
Maurice Sendak ∙ Riddley Walker...
...Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban...
When his father dies, young Riddley Walker becomes his village's "new connexion man," the one who interprets the shows and reality in general. Some of his colleagues think that Riddley may also possess "the follerme," a mystical ability lead others and to make things happen. Indeed, destiny tugs the boy toward the ancient holy center of Cambry (Canterbury), where an odd pilgrimage of people and elements has arrived. This combination, if successful, will result in the rediscovery of gunpowder...
There is never much doubt that this worst will happen, that these bedraggled survivors will regain some of the "cleverness" that almost destroyed them before. Riddley's narrative generates a different kind of suspense: the fascination of watching a strange world evolve out of unfamiliar words. Impoverished as it is Riddley's language can still generate unexpected riches. People in trouble are "living on burrow time." Two of the sciences that the nuclear "barms" wiped out are "chemistery and fizzics." When a person is trying to think amid too much noise he complains of "inner fearents." Riddley sometimes...