From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, a...
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1635578841
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Language
English
From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII London.
The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (or worse). So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some from legend, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. Soon Dennis finds himself at the centre of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both Londons forever...ISBN-10
:1635578841
ISBN-13
:9781635578843
Publisher
:Bloomsbury USA
Publication date
: 01 Oct, 2024
Category
: Fiction
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Format
:Hardcover
Language
:English
Reading Level
: All
Dimension
: 9.25 X 6.13 X 1.00 inches
Weight
:454 g
"I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore." --Entertainment Weekly
"One of the most significant fiction writers in English . . . Moore's influence can be felt everywhere-in our literature, on our screens, in our politics." --The Guardian "[Moore's] lyrical style is a play of poetry and metaphor with a dash of dry humor . . . This is a lavishly crafted urban fantasy tale with a caustic and colorful cast, perfect for fans of Susanna Clarke." --Library Journal "Like Dickens, Alan Moore has us waiting on the dock, impatient for the next installment of his breathless, time-travelling classic. A preternaturally convincing hallucination from London's fetid past transports us, in some mysterious way, over the abyss of our impoverished post-digital present. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying: and that's just the first page. Now read on." --Iain Sinclair "A profound, gorgeous novel of secret magics and lost souls." --Sunyi Dean, USA Today bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS "The worldbuilding is extraordinary and the plot is utterly gripping. Readers are sure to be sucked in." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal never-ending." --Financial Times "A rollicking adventure." --Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two "Moore's latest is a love letter to the city of London, full of small ironies and nods to the history and character of its neighborhoods as well as its resilience post-WWII." --Booklist "A dynamite story collection . . . remarkable." --The New York Times Book Review on ILLUMINATIONSCopyright © 2024. Boganto.com. All Rights Reserved