Volume 28, Number 18 · November 19, 1981

Past, Present, & Future

By Al Alvarez
Riddley Walker
by Russell Hoban

Summit Books, 220 pp., $12.95

The Flute Player
by D.M. Thomas

Dutton, 192 pp., $8.95

The Country
by David Plante

Atheneum, 159 pp., $9.95

Since Russell Hoban is an American—now settled in London—who has also written books for children, it seems natural enough that Riddley Walker should pick up where Huckleberry Finn leaves off:



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