Jerusalem
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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Written by:
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Alan Moore
About this listen
Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Best Male Narrator
Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.
In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK. 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 petrol-colored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them.
Employing a kaleidoscope of literary forms and styles that range from brutal social realism to extravagant children's fantasy, from modern stage drama to the extremes of science fiction, Jerusalem's dizzyingly rich cast of characters includes the living, the dead, the celestial, and the infernal in an intricately woven tapestry that presents a vision of an absolute and timeless human reality in all of its exquisite, comical, and heartbreaking splendor.
In these minutes lurk demons from the second-century Book of Tobit and angels with golden blood who reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Vagrants, prostitutes, and ghosts rub shoulders with Oliver Cromwell; Samuel Beckett; James Joyce's tragic daughter, Lucia; and Buffalo Bill, among many others. There is a conversation in the thunderstruck dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, childbirth on the cobblestones of Lambeth Walk, an estranged couple sitting all night on the cold steps of a Gothic church front, and an infant choking on a cough drop for 11 chapters. An art exhibition is in preparation, and above the world a naked old man and a beautiful dead baby race along the Attics of the Breath toward the heat death of the universe.
An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and minutes of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth, poverty, 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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-04-23
you owe it to yourself to read this one
a pause long enough to let me go back and start from the beginning again.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-08-03
A masterpiece
Truly an amazing book. A must read. Superbly written and amazingly performed. Simon Vance breaths life into every corner of Alan Moore’s opus. Funny, tragic and expansive. Do yourself a favour and read one of the best books.
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- Simon Mangan
- 2024-11-01
SO GOOD I CANCELLED MY SUB
They withdrew this book with 24hrs notice. Did not know they could do that. I Un-subbed. But now maybe I can buy a copy that I own!
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- LM
- 2022-03-23
A true Magnum Opus
One of the most ambitious and fascinating books I've ever read or listened to.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-03-11
This professional review conveys it all...
"...you're going to ask yourself that one, all-important question when it comes to Really Big Goddamn Books: Do I need to read this one? Yes, you do ... Inasmuch as anyone ever has to read anything, you have to read Jerusalem. People are going to say a lot of things about it — that it's massive (obviously), that it's brilliant (it is), that it's beautiful and maddening and sweet and stupid all in equal measure (true, true, true and true) ... awesome. Amazing. Lyrical and beautiful."
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- buddy
- 2024-12-11
Awful
The book is too dry and technical. He also quit following the advice he gave in the book.
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Book was stolen from me
I paid for this audiobook and didnt get around to listening to its 60+ hours. When I DID get around to it I found out it would be taken away on november 8th 2024 and there was nothing I could do about it. I sent a message to audible asking for a refund if they weren't going to let me keep the book. I got zero reply. Had I known there was an expiration date on this audiobook I never wouldve bought it. buyer beware.
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