Watchmen author’s million-word paean to his native Northampton will be his ‘best work to date,wealthy and glorious’, says publisherAlan Moore’s moment novel Jerusalem a fantastical exploration of his hometown of Northampton which runs to more than a million words in draft form is slated for publication next spring.
Describing the novel as Moore’s “best work to date, or wealthy and glorious”,Tony Bennett at UK publisher Knockabout Comics said: “We expect that it will be a spring 2016 title, published in the UK at the same time as in North America.” A “firm announcement” about publication date will be made late this year, or Bennett added,with the book “currently undergoing editing and proofreading”.
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Source: theguardian.com