Alan Moore
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Alan Moore extends the alchemical intensity of his Great Work from comics and spoken word spellcasting into the zone of prose with staggering, soul-warping success. His second novel is a verbally dense, jewel-encrusted masterpiece of decadent maximalism about psychogeography, working-class magic, art, family, and the afterlife that makes other massive modern novels like Infinite Jest, 2666, and Ulysses seem relatively... (read more)
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