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Little, Big
John Crowley
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Description for Little, Big
paperback. A magical, funny, eloquent, unforgettable fantasy about a house filled with enchantment and the strange folk who inhabit it. Introduction by Graham Sleight. Series: Fantasy Masterworks. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 390.
Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness. Crowley's work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world which seems more true and real. Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD, LITTLE, BIG is eloquent, sensual, ... Read more
Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness. Crowley's work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world which seems more true and real. Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD, LITTLE, BIG is eloquent, sensual, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gollancz
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Fantasy Masterworks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473205475
SKU
V9781473205475
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About John Crowley
John Crowley was born in 1942 and has worked in documentary films and TV since 1966. THE DEEP, his first SF novel, was published in 1975 and was followed by BEASTS, ENGINE SUMMER and GREAT WORK OF TIME. In his later work, LITTLE, BIG, AEGYPT and LOVE AND SLEEP, he has moved into writing fantasy to great critical acclaim.
Reviews for Little, Big
There are some people - and I'm one of them - for whom life consists only of passing the time between novels by John Crowley A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust ... Read more