Voice of the fire

a novel

Hardcover, 284 pages

English language

Published Feb. 26, 2003 by Top Shelf.

ISBN:
978-1-891830-44-0
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Master storyteller Alan Moore (Watchmen) delivers twelve interconnected stories of lust, madness, and ectasy, all set in central England and spanning over six thousand years, the narratives 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 related 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 …

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Subjects

  • Tales -- England -- Northampton -- Fiction.
  • Dead -- Fiction.
  • Fire -- Symbolic aspects -- Fiction.
  • Northampton (England) -- History -- Fiction.