The Golden Barge [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 122 pages
• Publisher: New English Library Ltd (May 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0450057216
• ISBN-13: 978-0450057212
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,228,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for a teenager, May 25, 2001

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"academon" (Bangor, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Golden Barge (Paperback)

In his introduction to the first edition (Savoy) Mr Moorcock explains how this is his first surviving book, done at an early age under the influence of his friend Mervyn Peake. He tends to disparage it but there is an odd, original quality about this book. You can now get it, with a lot of other good material, in White Wolf's EARL AUBEC volume, which reprints much of the author's shorter fiction, plus this novel. These beautifully produced illustrated editions are definitive and are well worth buying. Excellent value. But the original Savoy edition with its gold-leaf Moreau cover and its Cawthorn interior illustrations still isn't that expensive second hand from the UK. Check out the Savoy website for some strange, beautiful editions of VERY obscure titles!

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, September 3, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golden Barge (Hardcover)

Tallow is a short, odd man, who goes to find a Golden Barge, and with it, himself. His journey takes him through green women, war, death and other assorted goings on.

The introduction says this was the first thing Moorcock ever wrote, and he has changed it a bit for publication.

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius leaps fully drawn into a golden and mystic dawn, October 18, 2004

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James Windle "jimbo" (Canberra Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golden Barge (Paperback)

Who said authors cant leap fully made into great work. This is a great work. Often an authors early work is some or all of their best and this applies to Michael Moorcock. It captures brilliantly in the image of the unobtainable golden barge moving down the river - the unobtainable desire for the golden mean of contentedness and happiness as we move through our lives.

It encapsulates better than any novel I have ever read the word - no let us say "empire" of "yearning".