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04034aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 392A9C2C86D311E6AD05B3EADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160930010030 008 160912t20162016nyuab 000 1 eng 020 $a 1631492438 020 $a 9781631492433 035 $a (OCoLC)958281796 040 $a ZHB $e rda $b eng $c ZHB $d OCLCO $d JUH $d SILO 100 1 $a Moore, Alan, $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a Jerusalem : $b a novel / $c Alan Moore. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c [2016] 300 $a 3 volumes (1266 pages) : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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 petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the second-century Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent specters of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. 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 and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, 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." -- $c Provided by publisher 520 $a "Ten years in the making, comes a literary work like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. 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 petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the second-century Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent specters of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. 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 and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, 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. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Alan Moore's epic novel, Jerusalem, is the tale of Everything, told from a vanished gutter." -- $c Provided by publisher 505 00 $g Book three. $t Vernall's inquest ; Afterlude. $g Book two. $t Mansoul -- $g Book three. $t Vernall's inquest ; Afterlude. 650 0 $a Space and time $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slums $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mortality $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Public housing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Eternity $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fantasy fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Literature & Fiction. $2 local 655 7 $a Science Fiction & Fantasy. $2 local 655 7 $a Historical. $2 local 941 $a 5 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20210924014057.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20210713013016.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204084320.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110070221.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20170301011739.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=392A9C2C86D311E6AD05B3EADAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JUHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search