The first collection of short fiction from legendary comic book writer Alan Moore
Illuminations is a momentous,wildly original collection of short stories from'the king of comics'(the Guardian),each featuring some kind of illumination or realisation.
From the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the Big Bang,Alan Moore's beguiling and exquisitely crafted tales reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526643155Number of pages: 464Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
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'Illuminations is a wonderful collection,brilliant and often moving. A few are stories I've loved for years (in one case,for decades),some were new to me,often managing to be both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality,written in language that coruscates,concatenates and glitters. But the short stories in this book also turn out to be a sort of camouflage,or a frame,for'What We Can Know About Thunderman,'a short novel that's a scabrous,monstrous,often hilarious,unmasking and reinvention of the people who made the comics,and the lives destroyed by the four colour funnies. It's Alan Moore's Guernica,a time-hopping ontological Imaginary Story that refuses to leave your head after you've read it'- Neil Gaiman
'One of the great fiction minds of his generation'- Rolling Stone
'The king of comics'- Guardian
'Moore makes the parochial universal,the mundane sublime and the temporal neverending'- Financial Times
'His bighearted passion for his people... and the whole monstrous endeavour of the human condition is infectious. I'm not sure there's a God,but I thank Her for Alan Moore'- Entertainment Weekly
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