Early in Come Dance with Me, Christabel Alderton describes leafing through a book (of Wallace Stevens’ poems): ‘Page after page grabbed me with ideas and images I never would have thought of.’ Exactly the same might be said of a novel by Russell Hoban. Nowhere else would we find a character with a T-shirt saying, ‘Anapaests For Peace’, or a remark like, ‘We always have a moment with Anubis before we start work.’ Every page Hoban has published, including his children’s books, contains oddities that are distinctively, strikingly his.
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