Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing: A Novel

By John Calvin Batchelor

Book Overview

Based on rumors of a Soviet manned flight to the moon, a novel by the author of American Falls follows the adventures of Peter Nevsky, a cosmonaut-in-training with dreams of claiming the moon for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805021418
• ISBN13: 9780805021417
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 499 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Not to be ignored

Batchelor's major work of Cold War fiction floored me the first few times through. His gift to tear into the other side of the U.S/S.U. rivalry, showing both the very worst of Soviet repression and the kind of searing love-of-life felt by characters once they escape the watchful Soviet eye, is possessed by very few. Never feeling like a Soviet apologist or a "Raa raa, horray for our side" jingoistic US enthusiast, Batchelors work touches on Orwell's but never feels simply derivitive or hollow. He is a challenging, intense and unique writer and anyone who falls at the feet of Tom Robbins or loves the work of Don Delillo would do good to tackle Batchelor's writing, both this novel and the very wonderful, "Birth of the People's Republic of Antartica." Enjoy.