Verlag | Orion Publishing Group |
Auflage | 2016 |
Seiten | 576 |
Format | 15,7 x 20,4 x 3,7 cm |
Gewicht | 405 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1473213274 |
EAN | 9781473213272 |
Bestell-Nr | 47321327UA |
Moorcock returns to his beloved London, in a novel that captures the wild heart and dangerous living of the greatest city in the world.
Klappentext:
Moorcock's second great London novel - and thematic sequel to MOTHER LONDON - returns to print in a newly revised edition.
The death of Princess Di heralded a spring clean of the soul. And the dirt we wanted off our coffee tables was the kind of salacious exposure tabloid paparazzo photographer Denny Dover had made a fortune out of. Now he's out of work and moving to the godforsaken wastes of Skerring on the South coast to lick his wounds. A former rock star, this East End lad-made-good lived it up with the best of them.
But his childhood friend, hugely wealthy magnate Sir John Barbican-Begg (deceased, allegedly) is resurrecting events from a past littered with dysfunction and greed, sex, rock and roll and a ton of drugs. Denny's life encapsulates the fevered underground of a London teeming with contradiction and ambivalence, subversion and rage. Moorcock's hugely entertaining follow-up to his masterpiece MOTHER LONDON captured the spirit of our age as we staggered into the newmillennium.