Alan Moore Just Wrote A Novel So Enormous People Can't Pick It Up

The book sounds both appropriately grandiose and insane for a Moore novel. It's basically about a historical look at Moore's hometown of Northampton, but with a not insignificant amount of fantasy, and done in an extremely wide variety of styles. Chapters include:

• One about Moore's brother in the fourth dimension

• A crime noir about local pastor James Harvey, the "father of the Gothic movement"

• A combination "ghost story" and "drug narrative"

• A chapter written like a Samuel Beckett play, "because the author once visited the town to play cricket"

• A completely "incomprehensible" chapter about James Joyce's daughter Lucia, "all written in a completely invented sub-Joycean text"

• And something about "a savage, hallucinating Enid Blyton", the children's book author

And goodness knows what percentage of Jerusalem's one million words these take up.
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Alan Moore Just Wrote A Novel So Enormous People Can't Pick It Up