Little, Big
or, The Fairies’ Parliament
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Little, Big
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John Crowley
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John Crowley
Edgewood—which is not found on any map—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, travels from the City on foot to Edgewood, her family home. There he finds himself on the magical border of an otherworld.
Crowley's work has a special alchemy—mixing the world we know with an imagined world that seems more true and real. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Little, Big is elegant, sensual, funny, and unforgettable. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss, of impossible things and unshakable destinies, and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.
©1981 , 2012, by John Crowley. Edition © 2010 by Ron Drummond (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Eleştirmen yorumları
“A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.”
(Ursula K. Le Guin)“Little, Big is one of those sprawling, dream-like fantasy novels that has very British sensibilities but, paradoxically, it takes the Americans to do really well...The esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom called Little, Big ‘a neglected masterpiece. The closest achievement we have to the Alice stories of Lewis Carroll’, and the vast novel does have an almost soporific, Wonderland quality to it—best read on lazy days in dappled sunshine.”
(Guardian (London))“Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.”
(Peter Straub, award-winning horror fiction author)“One of my favorite works of modern fantasy, Little, Big is an amazing tale told in an amazing way. Reading it I felt as if I were watching a high-wire artist: one slip and he would fall into the dreadful net of Twee. Yet Crowley never slips, not upon a single word, and the book grows more powerful with every page.”
(Katharine Kerr, bestselling author)“John Crowley writes sentences of such coruscating magnificence that the rest of the English language has fallen in love with them. I once knew an adverbial clause who was so infatuated with the linguistic beauty of Little, Big that the poor creature pined away into a comma.”
(James Morrow, World Fantasy Award–winning author)“Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle.”
(Washington Post)“A haunting and suspenseful adventure transports the listener into a realm at once enchantingly ethereal and grounded in our ordinary world. John Crowley knows the essence of this setting best and proves it as narrator, delivering just the right combination of amazement and aplomb. Nicole Vilencia announces titles within the chapters. Her breathy and resonant voice is reminiscent of a fairy queen…This intergenerational fantasy dazzles with is elegant, lyrical prose. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
(AudioFile)Good, strange, conversational;
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Ten years and nine months have passed, and the books still haven’t arrived (being beset by all sort of production difficulties along the way, making this a more likely 35th Anniversary edition) but it’s on the home stretch, and I have every confidence that it’ll arrive this year, and I will be suitably rapt – I really do recommend you mosey over to the Little, Big web site and snag a copy (the price will go up after publication) – it’s going to be amazing.
All that said – I have finally (and belatedly) gotten around to reading (or listening to) John Crowley’s book – and what a beautiful book it is. Reminiscent (to me, at least) of Susannah Clarke’s “Johnathan Strange and Mister Norrell” (although this was written before JS&MN) Little, Big is a lyrical masterpiece that is a gorgeous, beautiful thing to experience – every word of every line has its place, turns up on time and performs with a Terpsichorean skill that leaves one almost dizzy with wonder and a jealousy at the writer’s skill - Crowley has a command of the English language that is almost otherworldly, or certainly of a bygone age. Phrases like “a brick-toothed rent” (in reference to a hole in the wall) are littered like bonbons on every page, used once (or in this case, twice), then casually discarded, having fulfilled their divine purpose. Turning to look back at it and marvel, you stumble over another in your path. Little, Big is the gift that keeps on giving, a brilliant, brilliant thing.
Utterly brilliant
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Charming, delightful tale and characters
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An absolute joy
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The way characters are revealed. The poetic and imaginative prose.
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