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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a story full of lust, madness and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England in 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 fisherman who believes he has become a different species, a Roman emissary who realizes the bitter truth about the Empire, a crippled nun who is healed miraculously by a disturbing apparition, an old crusader whose faith is destroyed by witnessing the ultimate relic, two witches, lovers, who burn at the stake...
Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land. In its last chapter, Moore himself describes the novel: "It's about the vital message that the stiff lips of decapitated men still shape; the testament of black and spectral dogs written in piss across our bad dreams. It's about raising the dead to tell us what they know. It is a bridge, a crossing-point, a worn spot in the curtain between our world and the underworld, between the mortar and the myth, fact and fiction, a threadbare gauze no thicker than a page. It's about the powerful glossolalia of witches and their magical revision of the texts we live in. None of this is speakable." In the tradition of Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Schwob's Imaginary Lives, and Borges' A Universal History of Infamy, Moore travels through history blending truth and conjecture, in a novel that is dazzling, moving, sometimes tragic, but always mesmerizing. This edition presents Voice of the Fire for the first time in hardcover format, featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, thirteen full-color plates by José Villarrubia (Promethea & The Mirror of Love), and a dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd. Review:"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 Review:"Remarkable, savage and, at times, unbearably beautiful..." Time Out Review:"A daring, unsettling work of literature." Locus Review:"Do not trust the tales, or the town, or even the man who tells the tales. Trust only the voice of the fire." Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction Review:"A first novel, Voice Of The Fire, slices through the history of his Northampton home, from the Stone Age up to his literal conjuring of an ending from the world around him, swallowing hallucinogens, beaming in messages from the TV — a wild, shamanic stretching of the writer's art." Nick Hasted, Uncut Review:"Alan Moore is the best and most innovative writer in graphic novels. I have been a huge admirer for years." Michael Moorcock Review:"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 Synopsis:In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over a span of six thousand years. Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land. In the tradition of Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Schwob's Imaginary Lives and Borges' A Universal History of Infamy, Moore travels through history blending truth and conjecture, in a novel that is dazzling, moving, sometimes tragic, but always mesmerizing. This edition presents Voice of the Fire for the first time in hardcover format, with full color illustrations by Jose Villarrubia. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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