Voice of the Fire [NOOK Book]

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Do not trust the tales, or the town, or even the man who tells the tales. Trust only the voice of the fire.-- from the introduction by Neil Gaiman"Alan Moore is the best and most innovative writer in graphic novels. I have been a huge admirer for years." -- Michael Moorcock"Alan takes genuine risks and justifies them: you feel, all the way, the rush of discovery; authorial privilege endangered by the savage voices he allows into his head." -- Iain Sinclair"A burning bush of a novel full of earthy wonder and ...
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Do not trust the tales, or the town, or even the man who tells the tales. Trust only the voice of the fire.-- from the introduction by Neil Gaiman"Alan Moore is the best and most innovative writer in graphic novels. I have been a huge admirer for years." -- Michael Moorcock"Alan takes genuine risks and justifies them: you feel, all the way, the rush of discovery; authorial privilege endangered by the savage voices he allows into his head." -- Iain Sinclair"A burning bush of a novel full of earthy wonder and wisdom, Voice of the Fire is a head-spinning trip down time's sacred whirlpool." -- Richard Gehr, Village Voice"Part mythic cycle, part fictional history of Moore's hometown, part collection of fireside ghost stories, Voice of the Fire is as clever and well-crafted as Moore's other genre experiments, and by taking his dialogue out of word-balloons and panel arrangements, it gives his limitless literary ambition room to stretch out into new and fascinating forms." -- Tasha Robinson, The Onion AV Club"A daring, unsettling work of literature." -- Locus"Remarkable, savage and, at times, unbearably beautiful." -- Time OutA brand-new paperback edition of the one and only prose novel by Alan Moore! (with an Introduction by Neil Gaiman, a signature of full-color plates by José Villarrubia, and a cover design by Chip Kidd).In a story full of lust, madness and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. Their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions and uncanny visions. First, a cave-boy loses his mother, falls in love and learns a deadly lesson. He is followed by an extraordinary cast of characters: a murderess who impersonates her victim, a Roman emissary who realizes the bitter truth about the Empire, a crippled nun who is healed miraculously by a disturbing apparition, two witches, lovers, who burn at the stake, and many more. Through each tale, Moore travels through history blending truth and conjecture, in a novel that is dazzling, moving, sometimes tragic, but always mesmerizing.
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Tasha Robinson
Part mythic cycle, part fictional history of Moore's hometown, part collection of fireside ghost stories, Voice Of The Fire is as clever and well-crafted as Moore's other genre experiments, and by taking his dialogue out of word-balloons and panel arrangements, it gives his limitless literary ambition room to stretch out into new and fascinating forms.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781603090933
  • Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
  • Publication date: 5/15/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 571,201
  • File size: 5 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Hob's Hog. 4000 bc 5
The Cremation Fields. 2500 bc 48
In the Drownings. Post ad 43 107
The Head of Diocletian. Post ad 290 117
November Saints. ad 1064 129
Limping to Jerusalem. Post ad 1100 143
Confessions of a Mask. ad 1607 163
Angel Language. ad 1618 179
Partners in Knitting. ad 1705 208
The Sun Looks Pale Upon the Wall. ad 1841 223
I Travel in Suspenders. ad 1931 237
Phipps' Fire Escape. ad 1995 259
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