Name: Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
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Author: Moorcock, Michael ; Wall, Alan
ISBN: 9781604864922

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Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet

Type

Physical Book

Author

Michael Moorcock

Introduction by

Alan Wall

Publisher

PM Press

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

552

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 16.4 x 3.4 cm

Weight

0.77 kg.

ISBN

1604864923

ISBN13

9781604864922

Synopsis "Laughter of Carthage: The Second Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet"

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 doctrines--like his devotion to cocaine--remains 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 Hollywood--his new Byzantium--hobnobbing 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.

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