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Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust

Writing the Unthinkable: Narrative, the Bomb and Nuclear Holocaust
In Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Riddley enters ‘the woom of Cambry’, the epicentre of the nuclear blast that reduced England to a neolithic state over two thousand years earlier. Walking through the crypt of the devastated cathedral, he experiences a numinous revelation of the power that was...
January 3rd, 2010 | Arts | Read More