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Long, wonderfully detailed, lovingly reconstructed picture of a particular society and an individual ...
The final title in the legendary Pyat Quartet but also a magnificent stand alone book chronicling some ...
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. The fourth and final volume of his Pyat Quartet, The Vengeance of Rome, was published by Cape in 2006. He lives in France and Texas.
Long, wonderfully detailed, lovingly reconstructed picture of a particular society and an individual sensibility- puts Michael Moorcock straight into the front rank of contemporary English novelists' Robert ...
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
'This is a rich, ambitious and erudite book...If one purpose of fiction is to lead us into different worlds, and, as Virginia Woolf says, to make of them 'some kind of whole', then Michael Moorcock...succeeds ...
The final title in the legendary Pyat Quartet but also a magnificent stand alone book chronicling some of the major events in history with Moorcock's characteristic style and wit
A major literary event: the final volume in the legendary Pyat Quartet.