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Original Title:	Little, Big
ISBN:	0061120057 (ISBN13: 9780061120053)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1982), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1981), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1982), World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1982), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (1982) British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (1982), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1982), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Foreign Novel (1998)

Little, Big

John Crowley

Paperback | Pages: 538 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 9614 Users | 1338 Reviews

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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 Drinkwater, 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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Title	:	Little, Big
Author	:	John Crowley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 538 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2006 by Harper Collins Publishers (first published September 1981)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Magical Realism. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.83 From 9614 Users | 1338 Reviews

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What a terrible shame. I was so set to love this book. The blurb was good, magical realism is one of my favourite things, the book cover is so pretty, I was so sure I was in for a five star read. And for about 100 pages everything went well. Then I realised that despite the beautiful writing style there was nothing for me to like. The story was thin, the characters barely existed , much of the writing became incomprehensible. I didn't give up and trudged on to the bitter end. And I still do not

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious."In upstate New York, in the wild and unpredictable countryside, there lies a house known as Edgewood. Like it's name implies, it lies near a large and mysterious wood. In this



I'm not going to try and write a detailed review of this book. I wouldn't even know where to begin. Though I suppose outlining how 'epic' the story is would be a decent starting point. 'Epic' in what sense? Well, it's between 500 and 600 pages for a start, depending on which edition you have, so it's not a light undertaking (literally!). But more importantly, it's epic in the way it recounts the Tale of the Drinkwater family, across four generations, spanning the 20th century, and a seemingly

This book astounded me. Not in a good way. I expected to like "Little, Big" quite a bit from what I'd heard about it. But, like the Drinkwater house, it looks smaller on the outside than it feels from inside. Not in a good way. I mean the book feels like it's a thousand pages.Some people like it, as you can tell by other reviews: the language is often quite clever, it ends on a semi-strong note, and it plays with myth in some interesting ways. These are all good things. Bad things? Well, the

I really didn't think I was going to give this one five stars, not even 400 pages in. I respected its craft, definitely. I was calling Crowley "maniacally subtle" to try to explain the inching, sometimes painfully slow unfolding of dramatic motion--and the sense that this whole book was an elaborate blind for a very clear and simple storyline hidden underneath. Crowley as much as tells you so in one of his many little metafictional asides about the Tale. But even as I latched onto fascinating

Reading "Little, Big" you find every last detail infused with magic, wonder and mystery. When you encounter a talking stork, you think "Of course, why wouldn't the stork talk?". A lot of the Gnostic and Hermetic concepts that Crowley explores in the Aegypt tetraology are also here in some form. They're given a less complete treatment, but nonetheless permeate the novel, including the "Art of Memory" as practiced by Giordano Bruno in Aegypt, and by Ariel Hawskquill and Auberon Drinkwater here.