The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 83 Punch

It’s kind of the forbidden song – about domestic violence and eating your family and it’s set in that post-apocalyptic world that Russell Hoban created in his novel Riddley Walker.

That book and the strange degraded English language he used to tell its story had a deep effect on me in the early 80s. There is a creepy Punch and Judy show in there that I b…