{"product_id":"russell-hoban-graeme-wend-walker-9781476682822","title":"Russell Hoban: Faithful to the Strange","description":"\u003cp\u003e Spanning more than half a century, Russell Hoban's celebrated literary career won him critical accolades and legions of admirers across multiple genres. Many know him from the groundbreaking masterpiece \u003ci\u003eRiddley Walker\u003c\/i\u003e, with its twelve-year-old protagonist contemplating \"what the idear of us myt be\" from amidst the ruins of civilization. Others know Hoban from the genre-defying \u003ci\u003eThe Mouse and His Child\u003c\/i\u003e or from idiosyncratic novels of floundering Londoners. Still others fondly recall Frances the Badger's refusal to go to bed, or share Emmet Otter with their children at Christmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book, the first consideration of Russell Hoban's literary career as a whole, explores what binds these seemingly disparate works together. Discovering unexpected patterns between books written from what one character describes as a perpetual \"state of surprise,\" this critical study also draws on Hoban's biography, from his formation as an artist under the influence of jazz in New York to the upheaval of his self-reinvention as a writer, as it offers its own reflection on what the idea of Russell Hoban might be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graeme Wend-Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476682828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476682822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Graeme Wend-Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47424393904383,"sku":"9781476682822","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db68fd73-3788-4a22-86a5-f6253bd9a820.jpg?v=1761529960","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/russell-hoban-graeme-wend-walker-9781476682822","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}