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Cover artist Peter Dyer Publication date 1988 Pages 496 pp Originally published 1988 Publisher Harvill Secker | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-436-28461-8 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mother London (1988) is a novel by Michael Moorcock. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Although the city of London itself is perhaps the central character, it follows three outpatients from a mental hospital – a music hall artist (Josef Kiss), a reclusive writer (David Mummery) and a woman just awoken from a long coma (Mary Gasalee) – who experience the history of the city from the Blitz to the late eighties through chaotic experience and sensory delusions. The novel is a non-chronological compilation of episodes, snippets and sidelines, rather than a single cohesive narrative. A piece in The Guardian called it 'a great, humane document'.
Michael Moorcock is the editor of New Worlds and gained numerous critical acclaim and media attention.