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by Michael Moorcock (Author) "IN THE FOUR and a half years since I finished editing the first volume of Colonel Pyat's memoirs (Byzantium Endures) my own circumstances changed considerably..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (10 Oct 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006541070
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006541073
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,291,456 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is the 2nd in the Pyat series.Maxim leaves Russia and travels Europe and eventually to America...his adventures are comic as well as terrifying! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'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 brilliantly' Carolyn Slaughter, Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive sense of history, 3 Jan 2003
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At a time when the US is accusing Europe of general racialism and funk because of a refusal to support a war against Iraq, it's interesting to read this particular volume of the Pyat sequence,
which highlights racialism in the US during the 1920s and reminds us that powerful industrialists and media-tycoons were supporting Hitler and Mussolini! I have just re-read all three books, partly because I've becoming frustrated waiting for the final one, and they hold up tremendously well. A modern epic, which takes 'Colonel Pyat', the anti-Semitic Jewish adventurer and self-professed scientist and inventor, from Kiev to St Petersburg, Odessa, Istanbul, Rome, Paris, New York, the American mid-West and deep South, Los Angeles, Cairo, the Sahara Desert and Morocco. I am on tenterhooks. Where will the final volume
take him ? News on Moorcock's website is that it is almost completed. Meanwhile, this and the other available volumes are highly recommended to anyone who wants novels as serious, subtle and vast in scope as the very finest Victorian moral fiction. Mr Moorcock is a generous, intelligent writer. If you are not familiar with this series, now's your time to get started. By the time you finish, the last volume might well have appeared!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking masterpiece, 10 Feb 2002
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This relentless record of the subtleties of racism which permitted the Nazi holocaust would probably make you want to commit suicide but for one thing -- it is outrageously funny! Moorcock's anti-semitic self-mythologising Ukrainian Jew from Beyond the Pale is a superb invention. He claims Felix Krull and Simpliccissimuss as his models. Both Mann and Grimmelshausen would be proud of him. These novels should be required reading for anyone who thinks they know modern English literature. Pyat's wild adventures with Parisian crooks, Italian gangsters, American tycoons and the heads of the Ku Klux Klan, winding up as a minor movie star and travelling actor, run at breakneck speed and all that stops you turning the pages is some sudden incredibly funny sequence, often turning up in the moments of greatest and most significant tragedy. Slowly the world is beginning to realise what a master novelist it has, sailing under some odd flags sometimes, but
in some ways you get the impression Moorcock has shunned the usual career decisions because he, like his friends Ballard and Sinclair, is root and branch a writer first and this is what makes him, like them, such a great innovator.
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5.0 out of 5 stars History of 20th century America -- and more!, 2 Dec 2001
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Just as Moorcock reproduced Ukraine and Russia in the first book in this series so that you could see, breathe, feel the scenery, so he has reproduced America of the 20s -- not the familiar 'Jazz Age' picture, but a picture of the politics and small-town notions of the day. In this one Colonel Pyat becomes Max Peters, inventor and movie star, and we get great glimpses of Hollywood as well as the engineering industry which made Los Angeles rich. We leave him flying off to meet the love of his life, having lied, cheated, stolen an worse across Turkey, France and America. Tremendous narrative on a dozen levels. There is no one with Moorcock's depth and breadth.
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