ISBN: 9781604864922 - laughter of carthage: the second volume of the colonel pyat quartet (9 Ergebnisse)

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 534 pp.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 534 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 534 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, that charming but despicable mythomaniac who first appeared in Byzantium Endures, is back. Having fled Bolshevik Russia in late 1919, Pyat's progress is a series of leaps from crisis to crisis, as he begins affairs with a Baroness and a Greek prostitute while undertaking schemes to build flying machines in Europe and the United States. His devotion to flamboyantly racist, particularly anti-Semitic doctrineslike his devotion to cocaineremains unabated, and he both sings the praises of Mussolini and lectures across America for the Ku Klux Klan. (His best kept secret is of course, the fact that he is Jewish.) As the novel ends, Pyat is in Hollywoodhis new Byzantiumhobnobbing with movie stars and dreaming of making films like those of his hero, D.W. Griffith.Engineer, braggart, addict, Pyat is a magnificent invention, a genius of innocent vituperation: his finest achievement (and that of the author) is that his own warped and deluded vision is powerful enough to redefine reality. This authoritative edition presents the first time this work has been available in paperback in the U.S., along with a new introduction by Alan Wall.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorBorn in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Bastrop, Texas and Paris, France. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and nonfiction to his name, he is the creator of Elr.