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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Jerusalem
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Moore, Alan
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fantasy fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 1266 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  abstract: "In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's 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 petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the second-century Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent specters of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake's eternal holy city."--
  table of contents: The boroughs -- Mansoul -- Vernall's inquest -- Afterlude.
  note: Alan Moore.
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Slums
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Mortality
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Public housing
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Eternity
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6063.O593 J47 2016
  classification: 823/.914
  identifier: 9781631491344
  identifier: 1631491342
  identifier: 2016014957
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160429
    record change date: 20160922145313.0
    record identifier: in00003735233
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng