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Moore, Alan, 1953-
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Slums -- Fiction.
Public housing -- Fiction.
Space and time -- Fiction
Mortality -- Fiction.
Future life -- Fiction.
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Moore, Alan, 1953-
Slums -- Fiction.
Public housing -- Fiction.
Space and time -- Fiction
Mortality -- Fiction.
Future life -- Fiction.
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Jerusalem
: a
novel
/ Alan Moore.
by
Moore, Alan, 1953-
Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016]
Call #:
FICTION MOO
Subjects
Slums -- Fiction.
Public housing -- Fiction.
Space and time -- Fiction
Mortality -- Fiction.
Future life -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781631491344 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
1266 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"In the epic
novel
Jerusalem
, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-colored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Employing, a kaleidoscope of literary forms and styles that ranges from brutal social realism to extravagant children’s fantasy, from the modern stage drama to the extremes of science fiction, Jerusalem’s dizzyingly rich cast of characters includes the living, the dead, the celestial, and the infernal in an intricately woven tapestry that presents a vision of an absolute and timeless human reality in all of its exquisite, comical, and heartbreaking splendor. In these pages lurk demons from the second-century Book of Tobit and angels with golden blood who reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Vagrants, prostitutes, and ghosts rub shoulders with Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce’s tragic daughter Lucia, and Buffalo Bill, among many others. There is a conversation in the thunderstruck dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, childbirth on the cobblestones of Lambeth Walk, an estranged couple sitting all night on the cold steps of a Gothic church front, and an infant choking on a cough drop for eleven chapters. An art exhibition is in preparation, and above the world a naked old man and a beautiful dead baby race along the Attics of the Breath toward the heat death of the universe. An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of
Jerusalem
tread ghosts that sing of wealth, poverty, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city."--From publisher.
Genre:
Experimental fiction.
Magic realism (Literature)
Fantasy fiction.
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