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The whispering swarm / Michael Moorcock ; Edited by Moshe Feder.
- Title
- The whispering swarm / Michael Moorcock ; Edited by Moshe Feder.
- Author
- Moorcock, Michael, 1939-
- Publication
- New York : TOR, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2015.
- ©2014
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6063.O59 W46 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 480 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Back in the Thirteenth Century, King Henry III granted a plot of land in the heart of London to an order of Friars known as the Carmelites. In return, they entered into a compact with God to guard a holy object. This sanctuary became a refuge for many of ill-repute, as the Friars cast no judgment and took in all who were in search of solace. Known as Alsatia, it did not suffer like the rest of the world. No Plague affected it. No Great Fire burned it. No Blitz destroyed it. Within its walls lies a secret to existence--one that has been kept since the dawn of time--a bevy of creation, where reality and romance, life and death, imaginary and real share the same world. One young man's entrance into this realm sends a shockwave of chaos through time. What lies at the center of this sacred realm is threatened for the first time in human existence.
- Series Statement
- The Sanctuary of the White Friars ; book 1
- Moorcock, Michael, 1939- Sanctuary of the White Friars bk. 1.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- London just after the war, a city desperately trying to get back on its feet. And one young boy, Michael Moorcock, who is about to discover a world of magic and wonder. Between his first tentative approaches to adulthood -- a job on Fleet Street, the first stirrings of his interest in writing -- and a chance encounter with a mysterious Carmelite Friar, we see a version of Moorcock's life that is simultaneously a biography and a story.
- ISBN
- 9780765324771 (hardcover)
- 0765324776 (hardcover)
- 9780765324801 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0765324806 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781429986427 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015003923
- 40025352169
- OCLC
- 900016719
- SCSB-11053762
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library