Jerusalem, Alan Moore, Paperback Book, 9780861662746, Free Shipping

This edition not for sale in the USA or Canada\nThis limited first edition has Alan Moore's cover drawing\nAlan Moore says of his work:\nIn the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England\u2019s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district\u2019s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-coloured puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent spectres of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlours labourers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament.\nDisappeared lanes yield their own voices, built from lost words and forgotten dialect, to speak their broken legends and recount their startling genealogies, family histori.