ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2006
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Autor: Michael Moorcock
Oblast: War/History

1. Byzantium Endures - Published by Vintage, 2006.
Paperback, 404 pages

The first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock`s most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks. Still a student at St Petersburg, he is deflected into more immediate concerns, caught up in the rip-tide of history.


2. The Laughter of Carthage - Published by Vintage, 2006.
Paperback, 601 pages

Having escaped the horrors of the Russian civil war, Maxim Arturovitch Pyat discovers that the hazards of Europe are as nothing to the perils that await him in America.He is almost immediately involved in further scandals, touring the country as a speaker for the Ku Klux Klan.In this second of Michael Moorcock`s acclaimed Pyat series of novels, only the reappearance of Pyat`s enduring love, his femme fatale, Mrs Corenelius, offers him a chance of escape.


3. Jerusalem Commands - Published by Vintage, 2006.
Paperback, 577 pages

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.


4. The Vengeance of Rome - Published by Jonathan Cape, 2006.
Hardcover, 618 pages

Born in the Ukraine, Jewish antisemite and bisexual, Pyat, careered through three decades like a runaway train. Now the quartet is complete: Pyat keeps his appointment with the age’s worst nightmare, becoming intimate with top Fascists and Nazis, and embracing their politics, until he too is swallowed up.