Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban (1925-2011) was the author of many extraordinary novels including Turtle Diary, Riddley Walker, Amaryllis Night and Day, The Bat Tattoo, Her Name Was Lola, Come Dance With Me and Linger Awhile. He also wrote some classic books for children including The Mouse and his Child and the Frances books.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
One Less Octopus at Paxos
Russell Hoban
‘She fired the speargun, then held up the spear with an octopus writhing on it. It was a mottled pinky-brown and its head was about as big as two clasped hands.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Pan Lives
Russell Hoban
‘The child by the window is not thinking of the brevity of life, the child has as yet no idea of it.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 8
Fragments of a Lament for Thelonious Monk
Russell Hoban
‘Always the slant rhyme with Thelonious, that was his Thelonious assault on the grey and civil devils of the ordinary. Walk tall and slanty, Thelonious; you live.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 8
Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road
Russell Hoban
‘Music is a puissant recaller of time past; music is memory's sister and for its very life relies on memory to hold in our minds the passage of sounds through time.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 8
Footplacers, London Transport, Owls, Wincer-Boise
Russell Hoban
‘All those footsteps have been gathered up into the footplacer, all those goings are gone.’