Jerusalem Commands: Between the Wars, Vol. 3: Pyat Quartet (Pyat Quartet 3) [Import] [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2006 | Series: Pyat Quartet 3

The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Pyat 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 the century.

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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 '[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

About the Author

Michael Moorcock was born in London in 1939 and published his first novel in 1961.He has written more than eighty books, fiction and non-fiction, including The Condition of Muzak which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and Mother London, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.He is based in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Vintage Books (February 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099485125
• ISBN-13: 978-0099485124
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.3 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,191,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 Pyat -- the Big Lie continues, February 14, 2006

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This review is from: Jerusalem Commands: Between the Wars, Vol. 3: Pyat Quartet (Pyat Quartet 3) (Paperback)

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 the twentieth century. This is the third volume in a sequence the Times Literary Supplement suggested was a modern 'Human Comedy', comparing the author with Balzac. Not a fantasy, scarcely an historical novel, in that, as with the other volumes, it moves back and forth between various periods of the real 20th century, including the present day.