Tuesday 2 May 2000

King of the City - Michael Moorcock

Book Details

Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Scribners
Publication Date: 2000


Fictional Artist: Dennis Dover, with cameos from Lemmy, Hawkwind's Robert Calvert, Siouxie Sioux and John Lydon.
Genre: Rock
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: Dover is clearly based upon the author himself; the Hawkwind songs Dover is said to have written are those Moorcock had a hand in.

Jacket Blurb
Denny Dover is now out of work and moving to the wastes of Skerring to lick his wounds. A former rock star and existential maverick, this East End lad-made-good lived it up with the best. But his childhood friend Sir John Barbican-Begg (deceased, allegedly) is resurrecting events from the past.

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