• Jerusalem Alan Moore New York Times

Jerusalem is a novel by British author Alan Moore, wholly set in and around the author's home town of Northampton, England. Combining elements of historical and supernatural fiction and drawing on a range of writing styles, the author describes it as a work of 'genetic mythology'. Published in 2016, Jerusalem took a decade to write.

JerusalemAuthorLanguageEnglishSet in, EnglandPublishedSeptember 2016Publisher(UK), (US)Media typePrint Pages1,266(UK), (US)Jerusalem is a novel by British author, wholly set in and around the author's home town of, England. Combining elements of and and drawing on a range of writing styles, the author describes it as a work of 'genetic mythology'.

Published in 2016, Jerusalem took a decade to write. The novel is divided into three Books, 'The Boroughs', 'Mansoul', and 'Vernall's Inquest'.Overview The story develops over centuries, set in the Boroughs, the most ancient neighbourhood in Northampton. The colophon states that the book is based on a true story; it concerns a large collection of characters: some mythical, some fictional, and some historical.

Along with his family's oral traditions, life experience, and ideas (such as ) that he had, Moore's research sources included a collection of interviews entitled “In Living Memory — Life in ‘The Boroughs,’” published by the Northampton Arts Development in 1987, as well as old.A key narrative arc culminates in 2006 with an exhibit of paintings by one of the characters, Alma Warren, who is indicated by the author portrait and its caption, present on the book's, to be a stand-in for Moore. Several events in the story are retold with different characters as the, with the writing style adapted to the focal character's inner voice, in a way that unites otherwise disconnected narrative threads. The book includes chapters in the style of, as well as a chapter written in verse, while the entire second Book is somewhat in the style of a children's novel (a 'savage, hallucinating,' according to Moore in a 2008 interview with the BBC).The novel's title is a reference to by, which was set to music and given the title 'Jerusalem'.

Prominent themes include 'poverty, wealth, history, the evolution of English as a visionary language' as well as 'madness, ghosts, and the confusion of dreams, visions, memories, and premonitions.' After the death of Moore's editor, he worked with three editors on the book, Donna Scott, author of Best of British Science Fiction 2016, writer and cultural Historian and writer. In the acknowledgements section of the book, Moore credits Fruish with supplying information that allowed him to reveal 'the gas street origins of free market capitalism and the industrial revolution' in the book. Editions The UK and US editions differ: the Knockabout edition is 1,180 pages long and is set in a small point size, whereas the Liveright edition is set in a larger point size and consequently is 1,266 pages long, and features a different author photo on the jacket. Alongside the one-volume hardcover first edition, Jerusalem was simultaneously released in a 3-volume slipcased paperback edition, and as an unabridged audio book narrated by Simon Vance, published by Recorded Books, Inc. The front cover (or, respectively, the slipcover for the 3-volume paperback edition) depicts several key scenes and characters from the novel in the form of a.

Each of the three Books begins with an epigram and photographic illustration (comprising cover illustrations for the slipcased volumes).References. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016. Financial Times. 17 January 2017. ^ Dominic Wells (22 September 2016). London, Hollywood.

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