Ebook {Epub PDF} Jerusalem by Alan Moore

 · Moore’s careful tracing of the long-incubating madness through generations of the Vernall family in Jerusalem is a feat of wondrous consistency—his wording is always precise, and even across hundreds of pages, the definitions, contexts, and lineages remain easy to grasp. There’s Ernest, who’s visited by angels while painting the top of a cathedral in the s; there’s Snowy, having visions on Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Jerusalem by Alan Moore. The New York Times bestseller from the author of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place .  · Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly).4/5().

The book in question is Alan Moore's Jerusalem - a page tome that translates to a hour audio book. This book was, for me - and I don't say this lightly, the most dreadful thing I've ever read. Stay far away from this book. If you don't know who Alan Moore is, don't start with this book. -Alan Moore, Jerusalem. Born into a working class Northampton family in the early s, Alan Moore was expelled from school at the age of sixteen for selling LSD. For good measure, his headmaster wrote to all the other schools and colleges in the area advising them not to accept this morally degenerate troublemaker as a student, or words to. Jerusalem by Moore, Alan. Used; hardcover; Condition Used: Good ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Seller. Ergodebooks. Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. HOUSTON, Texas. Day Return Guarantee; Item Price Or just with a Bibliophiles club membership.

Alan Moore has constructed in Jerusalem a monolithic rendering of his hometown of Northampton, England, steeped in a timeless mythology and haunted by ghosts and devils as well as those left behind by gentrified spaces. This sophomore novel is bookended with sections featuring Alma Warren, a painter and likely alter ego of Moore, whose name even resembles a visual and phonetic scrambling of his, as well as her muse of a brother. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). Moore’s careful tracing of the long-incubating madness through generations of the Vernall family in Jerusalem is a feat of wondrous consistency—his wording is always precise, and even across hundreds of pages, the definitions, contexts, and lineages remain easy to grasp. There’s Ernest, who’s visited by angels while painting the top of a cathedral in the s; there’s Snowy, having visions on the roof of an apartment building during the birth of his child in the early s; and.