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Illuminations
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- Narrated by: Laura Haddock, Rory Kinnear, Emilia Fox, Nina Sosanya, Samuel Barnett, Sian Clifford, Toby Jones, Matt Reeves, Clarke Peters, Alan Moore
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents Illuminations by Alan Moore.
From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore—one of the most influential writers in the history of comics—"a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality.
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover—and in some cases even make and unmake—the various uncharted parts of existence.
In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.
From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that—a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
What the critics say
"Illuminations is a wonderful collection, brilliant and moving... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality, written in language that coruscates, concatenates and glitters... [It] refuses to leave your head after you've read it." (Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and Norse Mythology)
"One of the most significant fiction writers in English... Moore’s influence can be felt everywhere—in our literature, on our screens, in our politics" (Guardian)
"His bighearted passion for his people... and the whole monstrous endeavor of the human condition is infectious. I’m not sure there’s a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore." (Entertainment Weekly)
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