Golden Barge

By Michael Moorcock

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879975725
• ISBN13: 9780879975722
• Release Date: October 1980
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 176 Pages

Customer Reviews

Genius leaps fully drawn into a golden and mystic dawn

Who said authors cant leap fully made into great work. This is a great work. Often an authors early work is some or all of their best and this applies to Michael Moorcock. It captures brilliantly in the image of the unobtainable golden barge moving down the river - the unobtainable desire for the golden mean of contentedness and happiness as we move through our lives. It encapsulates better than any novel I have ever read the word - no let us say "empire" of "yearning".

Not bad for a teenager

In his introduction to the first edition (Savoy) Mr Moorcock explains how this is his first surviving book, done at an early age under the influence of his friend Mervyn Peake. He tends to disparage it but there is an odd, original quality about this book. You can now get it, with a lot of other good material, in White Wolf's EARL AUBEC volume, which reprints much of the author's shorter fiction, plus this novel. These beautifully produced illustrated editions are definitive and are well worth buying. Excellent value. But the original Savoy edition with its gold-leaf Moreau cover and its Cawthorn interior illustrations still isn't that expensive second hand from the UK. Check out the Savoy website for some strange, beautiful editions of VERY obscure titles!