Based on rumors of a Soviet manned flight to the moon, a novel by the author of American Falls follows the adventures of Peter Nevsky, a cosmonaut-in-training with dreams of claiming the moon for Mother Russia. 20,000 first printing.
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Narrated by an aspiring cosmonaut, Batchelor's novel centers on the U.S./Soviet race for the first moon landing.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A year before the first lunar landing, Peter Nevsky arrives at Starry Town, the training center for Soviet cosmonauts. Full of youthful enthusiasm to reach the moon, he soon becomes enmeshed in political intrigue and ruinous romance. Along with the Martian Troika, his three godfathers, who were flying aces during World War II and who now provide the driving force behind the Russian space program, Nevsky battles a family curse and the senseless evil of State Security. Batchelor's massive revision of Soviet history is fabulous but convincing, and it provides a fitting context for high adventure and moral reflection. With exciting scenes of combat from Leningrad to Kazakhstan, this novel offers entertainment on a grand scale. It is also a thoughtful account of a young man's confrontation with the evil inside his country, his family, and himself.
- Albert E. Wilhelm, Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Albert E. Wilhelm, Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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By Patrick Roberts (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing: A Novel (Hardcover)
Batchelor's major work of Cold War fiction floored me the first few times through. His gift to tear into the other side of the U.S/S.U. rivalry, showing both the very worst of Soviet repression and the kind of searing love-of-life felt by characters once they escape the watchful Soviet eye, is possessed by very few. Never feeling like a Soviet apologist or a "Raa raa, horray for our side" jingoistic US enthusiast, Batchelors work touches on Orwell's but never feels simply derivitive or hollow. He is a challenging, intense and unique writer and anyone who falls at the feet of Tom Robbins or loves the work of Don Delillo would do good to tackle Batchelor's writing, both this novel and the very wonderful, "Birth of the People's Republic of Antartica." Enjoy.
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