The Great When The fantastical first instalment of the genre-busting Long London series
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Verlag:Bloomsbury eBooks UK
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2024
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Bloomsbury eBooks UKSeitenzahl
336 (Printausgabe)
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1952 KB
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1. Auflage
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Englisch
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9781526643216
'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair
'Unmistakably Alan' John Higgs
'A beautiful riot' Guardian
'I was in the wrong London. It was horrible. I'd fallen in by accident, and it was all alive and trying to eat me.'
The year 1949, the city London.
Hapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles through a city still shaking off the war. While out procuring inventory, Dennis's life changes forever when he chances upon a novel that shouldn't exist; an entirely fictional book from inside another novel.
The book hails from The Great When, a magical shadow-London, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts like Crime, Poetry and Riot are incarnated as mystical beings that stalk the streets. This discovery brings terrible danger, as the book's presence leaves the doorway open between the two Londons, and The Great When must remain a secret.
Soon Dennis finds himself in the city's occult underbelly, negotiating sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some imaginary, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. If Dennis cannot return the book and close the gate, he risks dire repercussions...
Neither London will ever be the same again.
History collides with magic in The Great When. Dark, ridiculous, propulsive, Sunday Times bestseller Alan Moore opens the gates to capital metafictional chaos in the genre-busting first instalment of the Long London series.
'Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative' Adam Curtis
'A weird book and a complete joy' Mariana Enríquez
'A masterful step from one of our very best, uncompromising storytellers' Heather Parry
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Brilliant, bizarre & a bit overwhelming
Alan Moore is a literary legend for a reason, and The Great When certainly proves that his imagination is as wild and boundless as ever. Set in the grim aftermath of World War II, the story follows a young man who accidentally stumbles into a surreal, deeply magical, and often terrifying alternate version of the city known as "Long London." While the world-building is undeniably well done and dripping with a dark, eccentric atmosphere, this book demands more than your full attention. Moore's prose is incredibly dense, and the sheer volume of historical oddities and mystical tangents can sometimes weigh down the actual pacing. For someone like me (reading this as a non-native-speaker), this writing-style was, while expertly executed, a bit overwhelming. It’s a fascinating, deeply weird journey, but one that occasionally gets lost in its own complexity. If you love rich, demanding urban fantasy and have the patience to let a slow-burn, highly descriptive narrative wash over you, there is still a lot of unique magic to uncover here. -
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Dennis Knuckleyard is happy to...
Dennis Knuckleyard is happy to have survived the Blitz and is now (at 18) already at a dead end job working at Coffin Ada's antique bookstore. When he purchases a book that should not exist, he comes into contact with a parallel, wondrous, and dangerous London.
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