Russell Hoban (1925–2011)
Autor/a de Bread and Jam for Frances
Sobre l'autor
Russell Hoban was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1925. He attended art school in Philadelphia and during World War II, he served in the Army and earned a Bronze Star. He taught art in New York and Connecticut, and also worked as an advertising copywriter and a freelance illustrator mostra'n més before beginning his career as a writer. He began publishing children's books in the late 1950s, including What Does It Do and How Does It Work?, Bedtime for Frances and the six other books featuring Frances, The Story of Hester Mouse Who Became a Writer, What Happened When Jack and Daisy Tried to Fool the Tooth Fairies, and The Mouse and His Child, which was adapted as an animated film in 1977. In 1973, he published his first adult novel, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz. His other books for adults include Turtle Diary, Pilgermann, and Ridley Walker. He received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award for Ridley Walker. He died on December 13 at the age of 86. In 2015 he made the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist for his title Jim's Lion wth illlustrator Alexis Deacon. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Sèrie
Obres de Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker / The Medusa Frequency 41 exemplars
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen/ A Near Thing for Captain Najork (Flippers 2 Books in 1) (1974) 14 exemplars
What does it do and how does it work?: Power shovel, dump truck, and other heavy machines (1959) 4 exemplars
Bread and Jam For France 2 exemplars
The Second Mrs Kong 2 exemplars
The Moles Family's Christmas 1 exemplars
Dark Oliver 1 exemplars
A Bargain for Frances ; Best Friends for Frances ; Egg Thoughts & other Frances Songs ; Glynis Johns 1 exemplars
Frances 1 exemplars
Birthday for Frances, A 1 exemplars
A bargain for Frances and other Frances stories 1 exemplars
The Stone Dollk of Sister Brute 1 exemplars
Baby sister for Frances, A 1 exemplars
Le premier Noël de la famille LaTaupe 1 exemplars
A bargain for Frances and other stories 1 exemplars
Bernard Le Clochard 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,528 exemplars
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Col·laborador — 215 exemplars
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, September 1976 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The Marizipan Pig [1990 TV episode] — Original book — 1 exemplars
Turtle Diary [1985 film] — Original story — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Hoban, Russell
- Nom oficial
- Hoban, Russell Conwell
- Data de naixement
- 1925-02-04
- Data de defunció
- 2011-12-13
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Mortlake Crematorium, London
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- congestive heart failure
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
Wilton, Connecticut, USA - Educació
- Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art
- Professions
- novelist
advertising artist
advertising copywriter
children's book author
TV art director
illustrator (mostra-les totes 7)
librettist - Relacions
- Hoban, Lillian (wife)
Hoban, Brom (son)
Hoban, Tana (sister)
Hoban, Phoebe (daughter)
Hoban, Wieland (son) - Organitzacions
- United States Army (WWII)
- Premis i honors
- Bronze Star
Whitbread Book Award (1974)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1982)
Membres
Converses
Young Reader series, about a family of skunks or badgers? a Name that Book (gener 2012)
Children's book about clockwork mice a Name that Book (abril 2009)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Backlisted (1)
Christmas Books (3)
Favourite Books (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Read These Too (1)
al.vick-series (1)
1960s (1)
SF Masterworks (1)
Sonlight Books (2)
1970s (2)
Best Dystopias (1)
Five star books (1)
Ambleside Books (4)
Unread books (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 115
- També de
- 26
- Membres
- 25,214
- Popularitat
- #832
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 441
- ISBN
- 709
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 59
- Quant a
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 333
Just about all knowledge from our time has been lost, but there are fragments of it echoed in nursery rhymes and folk tales that recur throughout the novel. Just as Riddley's language is a distorted echo of our English, with faux-amis-like homonyms revealing unintended meanings, the nursery rhymes and folk tales contain kernels of forgotten knowledge from the time before the apocalypse. This is done exceptionally well - while part of the fun of the book is trying to spot the origins of these folk stories, they are not the clumsy, direct allegories one might expect, but have the real ring of organic myth.
It is interesting that the society seems restrained by their knowledge of the pre-apocalyptic world. If they were starting from scratch you feel they'd make greater progress. As it is, they are trying to recreate what they knew we have without the necessary foundations, and so seem doomed to stagger around in fruitless circles (like an emergent religion based on fossilised world models, à la J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough).
This, along with the depravation and sheer grimness of Riddley's world, and the inevitable power struggles and cruelty make the book a somewhat depressing, harrowing read with an underlying despair at the human condition. But then there are also definitely kernels of optimism, partly from the eponymous character's resilience, but also from the creativity evinced by their new myths and the emergent culture that comes from it.
Riddley Walker is a great book - linguistically rich and challenging, with a well-constructed future-primitive world with a convincing culture. Not always easy, but it grabbed me and kept me reading - even if, sometimes, only a couple of pages at a time. And as soon as I finished I wanted to go back and re-read sections of it - as well as look up other people's thoughts about the book (I haven't done that yet). There are so many characters, phrases and incidents which have firmly lodged themselves in my subconscious that Riddley Walker will stay with me for quite a while.
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