Little, Big (P.S.)
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. 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.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
Poetic diversion
To be fair, this book is not for everyone. In rapt affection, i read passages to my friend, and he balked at the superfluous language. He is a man who enjoys concise, dense language full of references that would make Pound proud. He doesn't read...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 06, 2008 Type: User Review |
Non sequiturs (and asides) to no end
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Simply Magnificant, Stellar, Wonderful, and Everything Between
The biggest problem with "Little, Big" is that it makes almost anything you read afterward, stale and disappointing. It makes you want to return to Edgewood, it makes you want to meet Auberon and Smokey and Daily Alice all over again, and it...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
A midsummer night's dream
John Crowley's Little Big is a marvelously well written fairytale set in a bygone America that never was. Generations of the Drinkwater/Barnable clan live in a wonderfully mysterious house in the country whose grounds get larger the deeper you go...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 28, 2007 Type: User Review |
This book is not for everyone, but the people it's for NEED to read it.
For those who are into this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they rave about. Little, Big is a masterpiece, but it is not the most accessible masterpiece in the history of literature. Crowley is not Stephen King (that's not an insult to...
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