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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 ofience 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. 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.
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"A master storyteller tak[ing] the voices of the dead as his own" -- Neil Gaiman
"Contains a great many inventive and instructive cosmologies." --The Guardian
"I wouldn't hesitate to refer to it as a true high point of Moore's achievements as a writer... and I'm confident that anyone who has enjoyed his work in other media will thoroughly enjoy it." --Bleeding Cool
"Jerusalem is Moore's life's work - gospel, encyclopedia, Rosetta Stone, and Pandora's box all rolled into one giant, perspective-changing novel. Jerusalem delivers... It's a compelling, thought-provoking, and yes, challenging but always engaging read." --Literary Hub
"Moore's personal cosmology of space, time, and life after death." --New York Times Book Review
"The imagination Moore displays here and the countless joys and surprises he evokes make Jerusalem a massive literary achievement for our time - and maybe for all times simultaneously." --Washington Post
"I found large chunks of it to be breathtaking in their scope." --Electric Literature
"Mr. Moore's prose is rich and complicated and at times ponderous. Once you slip into the rhythm of it, it is also poetic, insightful, and beautiful... It is possible that scholars will be picking this apart for years to come." --Post-Gazette
"Soars high on the wings of the author's psychedelic imagination. His bighearted passion for his people, his city, and the whole monstrous endeavor of the human condition is infectious. I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore." --Entertainment Weekly
"The novel has the immersive imaginative power of fable; it also deepens Moore's career-long investigation into the kind of collapsed rationality that borders on genius and might, very easily, be misdiagnosed as madness." --The New Yorker
"Moore is rightly regarded as a comic book writing genius and pretty much redefined comic book storytelling... This book will... change a generation." --Starburst
"In this staggeringly imaginative second novel, Moore (Watchmen) bundles all his ruminations about space, time, life, and death into an immense interconnected narrative that spans all human existence within the streets of his native Northampton, U.K. Reading this sprawling collection of words and ideas isn't an activity; it's an experience... It's all a challenge to get through, and deliberately so, but bold readers who answer the call will be rewarded with unmatched writing that soars, chills, wallows, and ultimately describes a new cosmology. Challenges and all, Jerusalem ensures Moore's place as one of the great masters of the English language." --Publishers Weekly
"Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter." --Down the Tubes
"Magisterial: an epic that outdoes Danielewski, Vollmann, Stephenson, and other worldbuilders in vision and depth." --Kirkus Reviews
"For his latest work, Moore turns in a sprawling, million-word saga blending fantasy and historical fiction set roughly in the Northampton, England, neighborhood in which he grew up. . . . [Moore's] fans will doubtless find much here to ponder and delight in." --Booklist
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In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. 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. An opulent mythology for those without a pot to p*ss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium.
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- VerlagKnockabout Comics
- Erscheinungsdatum2016
- ISBN 10 0861662547
- ISBN 13 9780861662548
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten1
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Jerusalem (3 Vol. Slipcased Paperback Edition) (3 Vol Slipcased Paperback Edtn)
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Knockabout Comics, United Kingdom, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0861662547
ISBN 13: 9780861662548
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR008700322
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