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Jerusalem Commands

Between the Wars Vol. 3

Michael Moorcock author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Jan '06

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There have been few novelists who have risen above the orthodox categories of fiction... to produce something as expansive and elaborate as this' - Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times

The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.

[There are] those of us who have buttonholed strangers on the Underground and raved about Moorcock's masterpieces Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage * Sunday Telegraph *
His is the grand, messy flux itself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. Posterity will certainly give him that due place in English literature -- Angela Carter * Guardian *

ISBN: 9780099485124

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 36mm

Weight: 406g

592 pages