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Synopsis
Grafton, 1986. British mass market paperback. This 1968 novel is Moorcock's existentialist tale about Karl Glogauer, a man who travels from the year 1970 in a time machine to 28 A.D., where he hopes to meet the historical Jesus of Nazareth.
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About the Author
London born Michael Moorcock is one of the most prominent, prolific and popular writers in the Western world. As the editor of New Worlds, Michael was a primary motivation behind the 1960's "New Wave" literary movement. His prodigious output includes rock songs, comics, screenplays, essays, and over seventy novels. Perhaps best know for his interlocking heroic fantasy series, Michael's recurring characters include Elric, Corum, Dorian Hawkmoon, Jerry Cornelius, the Eternal Champion and others. A multiple winner of the British Fantasy Award, Michael has won the Guardian Fiction Award (Condition Of Muzak), the World Fantasy Award (Gloriana), John W. Campbell Memorial Award (Gloriana), Nebula Award (Behold The Man) and was a finalist for the Whitbread Prize (Mother London). He currently lives with his wife Linda in Lost Pines, TX.
John Picacio is the co-founder of Maverick Studios. His stories and design have been published in Maverick Studios' Words & Pictures and Mojo Press' Weird Business. He lives and works in San Antonio, TX.
Review
Behold The Man won the 1967 Nebula Award. Moorcock is an acknowledged master of fantasy with social and psychological bite, and this extremely controversial novella may well represent the best the fantasy field has to offer in terms of pure literary firepower. Karl Glogauer travels back in time two thousand years, meets John the Baptist, and then seeks Jesus Christ himself. To quote the jacket copy, "What he discovers shocks him to the core." This is a devastating story- science fiction at its most abstract and symbolic. And absolutely unforgettable. I'm ecstatic to have this beautiful corrected 30th Anniversary edition, with foreword by Jonathan Carroll and an afterword by the author, as well as lush illustrations by John Picacio. It's an essential element of any library of the fantastic- be grateful Mojo Press cared enough to make it available again. -- from William D. Gagliani's "Literature Fantastique" column from the December 1996 issue of Booklovers
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- PublisherGrafton
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0583117872
- ISBN 13 9780583117876
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages157
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Behold the Man
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Geoff Taylor (illustrator). London: Grafton:, 1986. First printing, Paperback. Fine, 157 pp. Cover artwork by: Geoff Taylor Clean, straight, tight and crease-free. First printing, Paperback. Fine, Seller Inventory # 73768
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Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Bob Haberfield (illustrator). 1970 Edition. © 1969: 1st in the 'Karl Glogauer' series of books. 3rd printing of 1970 edition. Unrecognised ISBN 0583117873 printed on cover. Winner of the USA's coveted Nebula Award:- Synopsis: Karl Glogauer, obsessed with the bright silver crucifix that dangles round the little girl's neck, tortured by his growing sexuality and the overwhelming mystic power of religion. Karl Glogauer loves with Eva, innocent and beautiful, but he is too destructive. He loves with a troop of middle-aged women, but they are just a training ground. He loves with Monica, but she is explosive, she stings like a scorpion. He loves. He tries to love. He tries. The story of Glogauer's crisis of identity weaves between modern London and ancient Palestine, between Glogauer's erotic hunt for personality and Christ's journey to the cross. This is perhaps the most controversial portrait of Christ ever painted:- Review(s): "Portnoy or Glogauer, the complaint's the same" - Evening Standard / "Here is a strange story. Here is a real inventiveness" - Manchester Evening News:- (original cost £0.50). Seller Inventory # 23.072.00001
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Haberfield, Bob (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First paperback edition. Short version originally published in New Worlds in 1967. Published in the UK in hard covers by Allison & Busby in 1969. Small patch of surface tearing to the rear cover where a label has been removed. Heavy reading crease to the spine. Edge rubbing to covers with a light crease to the top corner of the front cover. Pages browned but otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration by Bob Haberfield. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Seller Inventory # 014343
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Painted Front Cover. (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher. 143 pages.good reads notes = "Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return." >>Edge wear to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 15742-16
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