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Submitted by AdministratorUser1 on 18 August, 2021 - 09:44
Rupert Loydell revisits Russell Hoban's first eight novels as reissued in spring 2021 with new Eduardo Paolozzi covers in the Penguin Modern Classics imprint; also touches on his later books.
Submitted by Richard Cooper on 8 February, 2020 - 18:23
Short article by Russell Hoban for Time Out magazine, issue date December 5-11 2007. For the magazine's "My favourite Londoner" series Hoban chooses a character in The Beckoning Fair One, a short story by Oliver Onions, which Hoban referenced in some of his later novels. Link is a tweet by Nick Campbell with images of the article.
‘This is it ... this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at every level - Lola filling Max's emptiness and vice versa. But Max had also always craved the recognition of another sort of woman, the sort who had been Homecoming Queen at her high school - just as the tempting Lula Mae Flowers had been back in Texas. Why did Max have to meet Lula Mae just when he'd found his destiny woman in Lola?