Shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, MOTHER LONDON is a dazzling journey through the heart of a city that the author loved. Spanning generations of characters across a variety of boroughs from the Blitz to the mid-eighties, this is a book about the real London that tourists will never find, a London which is being erased by the spread of high-rise flats and shining skyscrapers.
Following a group of released mental patients across the years and streets of London, Moorcock creates a vivid impressionistic portrait of the city, from its downtrodden pubs to its green parks. All of the lead characters hear voices - but are they the murmurings of their damaged minds, or the true voice of the city?
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781473213258
Number of pages: 544
Weight: 431 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 36 mm
The greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasyA supreme example of the fantasy genre and more - TIME OUTScenes of beauty and power, and serious ruminations on humankind's capacity for great dreams and profound horrors - LOCUSa great, humane document - London Review of Books
There are many Michael moorcock books so this is a generic author review really. I started reading moorcock in the early nineties and whilst I enjoyed a lot of his early books from the sixties and seventies I also... More
An epic novel that takes us from the London Blitz to the rise of Mrs Thatcher's government in the Eighties, through the minds of a bunch of people who are classified as mad. All the characters lives interweave in... More
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