The Great Victorian Collection

A fantasy novel in which a historian dreams up a Victorian collection and finds his life altered at the boundary between dream and reality.

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A dreamed collection reshapes a life.

What begins as a dream collection ends up shaking the very world around the protagonist.

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Unusual.

Not his best but very inventive. Beautifully written, of course. Moore has never produced a bad book. His prose and narrative is superb.
The Great Victorian Collection

Brian Moore's wistful, libidinous, fabulously imaginative novel describes an event that can't have happened, but it did. The slipstream tale is radically different from his usual work in content and style but--typical for him--compelling, provocative, funny and sad, and completely worthwhile. And the overarching question is the very one he worries at in his novels about faith: What is real, what isn't? Premise: His protagonist had a dream, and it comes true. Out of his REM state and into the parking lot behind a motel in Carmel springs up, in one swoop, a collection of Victoriana like nothing else on earth. In this gaudy fairground are hundreds of famous objects that are neither missing from the British museums that own them nor copied but somehow in two places at once. Objects thought to be long ago destroyed somehow exist again, in pristine, working condition. Don't worry about what's real and what isn't. Be there now.