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  • Published: 1 March 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099485124
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $39.99

Jerusalem Commands

Between the Wars Vol. 3



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

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.

  • Published: 1 March 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099485124
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Michael Moorcock

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.

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Praise for Jerusalem Commands

[There are] those of us who have buttonholed strangers on the Underground and raved about Moorcock's masterpieces Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage

Sunday Telegraph

His is the grand, messy flux itself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. Posterity will certainly give him that due place in English literature

Angela Carter, Guardian