Letter from London: Mother Moorcock.

MOORCOCK, Michael, 1939-; MOTHER London (Book); SOCIAL realism; POETRY (Literary form); PSYCHIC ability; RUINED buildings

The article focuses on Michael Moorcock's 1988 novel "Mother London" was a high-concept narrative of social realism that worked its way from one emblemizing pub to another. It mentions collective unconscious that reconfigures linear time, stitching together a multitude of nameless and faceless voices, stories, snatches of poetry, and music-hall ditties. It also mentions use his psychic abilities to locate survivors in the rubble of ruined buildings.