The Great When A Long London Novel
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2024
Verlag
Bloomsbury eBooks UKSeitenzahl
336 (Printausgabe)
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6623 KB
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1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
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9781526643193
The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital is 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 bizarre and disastrous 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.
Thrilling, lyrical and sparkling with dark humour, The Great When is the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore.
'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair
'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; Moore peels back the layers of London and reveals not only the history we know, but the histories that could have been, and, underneath it all, both the dark and beautiful truths about who we are as a nation.' 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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