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| Title | : | Little, Big |
| Author | : | John Crowley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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 |
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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| 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) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 9614 Users | 1338 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Little, Big
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 notI tried to read this but just couldn't slog my way through it. The jacket copy sounded really intriguing, but I didn't get halfway through it. The biggest problem I had with this book was that I felt tried far too hard to be Airy and Phantasmagorical and Mystically Vague and forgot that a plot was actually necessary. It wanders and doesn't actually get anywhere, the prose was overstuffed, and not a single character actually caught my attention. I was disappointed, beause it was a very
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.
Little, Big is the greatest book I have ever read. It is living magic in text form, and it has a truly transformative effect on the reader. I understand that it meanders a bit in the middle section and goes off on a strange-ish quasi-political tangent toward the end, but everything is purposeful and comes together to achieve a singular effect - literally every single sentence is essential and purposeful to the grand narrative. When I finished it, I immediately felt like re-reading it to catch
This is one of those books that is hard to talk about. Maybe best to describe by analogy. So imagine a tangled ball of wool with which you are following a strand as it winds its way in around the other strands, in and out of the tangle until eventually you find the other end of the thread, somewhere not too far from where you started.The narrative flows a bit like that. It nips back and forwards in time, hops from one character to another, spanning several generations of a sprawling family as we
Qué complicado hacer una reseña de esta novela. Un libro que requiere por sà solo una redefinición de lo fantástico según Ursula K. Le Guin. La palabra fascinante se queda corta para describirla.Pequeño, grande, o El parlamento de las hadas. Pequeño es, quizás, la saga familiar de los Bebeagua, una historia de amor algo revuelta, la historia de Fumo Barnable, un personaje anodino que llega de la ciudad para vivir en Bosquedelinde, esa maravilla arquitectónica que proyectó el bisabuelo de Llana
sometimes, when dreaming, i am aware of a complex and mysterious history to the at times strange but often mundane narrative of the dream itsef. i'll be running away from something, against some dark background, a house or castle or a school, who knows... although the drama of running is clear, there's often a feeling that so many things have already happened before i started running, things of which i'm only dimly aware, a whole story has happened or is happening in which i'm only getting bits
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