{"product_id":"9781907222511","title":"Somnium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the early years of the twenty-first century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centered on the Greek Moon goddess Selene, \u003ci\u003eSomnium\u003c\/i\u003e is an intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, it combines medieval, Elizabethan, Gothic, and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its delirious and heartbroken narrative, \u003ci\u003eSomnium\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary odyssey through love, loss, and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Moore's afterword details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of \u003ci\u003eSomnium\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new expanded paperback edition includes \u003ci\u003eSketches of Shooter's Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, a topographical communiqué from the South London hinterlands that formed the liminal setting for Moore's novel. Originally self-published by the author and distributed only to a handful of friends, this curious travelogue is made available to readers here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterpiece.\" — Alan Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A unique work by a unique genius. Moore has an understanding of the occult peculiar to a very few and it always gives me the shivers; the shivers which say 'authenticity.' Get this book while you're part of the minority who know about it.\" — Michael Moorcock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A visionary decrypting of one of fringe-London's most potent downriver sites. Steve Moore's voyage through plural strands of time echoes the high craft of his namesake, Alan, and the honourable tradition of Michael Moorcock's \u003ci\u003eGloriana.\"\u003c\/i\u003e  — Iain Sinclair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strange Attractor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053131284720,"sku":"9781907222511","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781907222511_p0.jpg?v=1763618026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781907222511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}