PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Luda

A Novel

Grant Morrison

$60.95   $54.81

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Miscellaneous
06 September 2022
A drag queen initiates her protégée into the magical arts in this phantasmagoric epic, the first novel from the legendary comics writer and New York Times bestselling author.

“Grant Morrison is a modern mythmaker.”—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Luci LaBang is a star: For decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she’s the leading lady in a smash hit musical. But as time takes its toll, Luci fears her star is beginning to dim.   When Luci’s co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene: Luda, whose fantastical beauty and sinister charm infatuate Luci immediately . . . and who bears a striking resemblance to Luci herself at a much younger age.   Luda begs Luci to share the secrets of her stardom and to reveal the hidden tricks of her trade. For Luci LaBang is a mistress of the Glamour, a mysterious discipline that draws on sex, drugs, and the occult for its trancelike, transformative effects.   But as Luci tutors her young protégée, their fellow actors and crew members begin meeting with untimely ends. Now Luci wonders if Luda has mastered the Glamour all too well . . . and exploited it to achieve her dark ambitions.   What follows is an intoxicating descent into the demimonde of Gasglow, a fantastical city of dreams, and into the nightmarish heart of Luda herself: a femme fatale, a phenomenon, a monster, and, perhaps, the brightest star of them all.

By:  
Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 239mm,  Width: 164mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   675g
ISBN:   9780593355305
ISBN 10:   059335530X
Pages:   448
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Grant Morrison is best known for their innovative work on comics, from the graphic novel Batman: Arkham Asylum to acclaimed runs on Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the X-Men, as well as their subversive creator-owned titles such as The Invisibles, Seaguy, The Filth, and WE3. In television, they have developed adaptations of their comic series Happy! for Syfy and Netflix and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for Peacock. In addition, Morrison is an award-winning playwright, a musician, an occult practitioner, and a stray-cat magnet. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods. Morrison was awarded an MBE for services to film and literature.

Reviews for Luda: A Novel

Grant Morrison is a modern mythmaker-a once-in-a-lifetime storyteller who has crafted some of the most evocative sagas of our generation. With Luda, Morrison has created a mesmerizing, evocative, and unforgettable journey that still manages to be grounded and character driven. Luda discards the trappings of genre boundaries to concoct something wholly new and truly phenomenal. -Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity Praise for Grant Morrison Morrison's whole body of work inspired me. -Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance I suddenly realized that everything that I'm trying to say in my nonfiction work, and in some of my fiction work, has been so beautifully and so imaginatively expressed in the work of Grant Morrison. -Deepak Chopra Morrison is a skilled word magician, seeking creativity in a cosmological dimension. -Publishers Weekly Morrison possesses that trick of the best teachers-[they show] you how and why [they are] excited about these ideas, so you get excited by them as well. -Austin American-Statesman


See Inside

See Also