Little, Big
by:
John Crowley (author)
Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable — an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world...
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Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable — an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in — and how it is to end.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062124043 (0062124048)
Publish date: May 22nd 2012
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Fairies,
Speculative Fiction,
Magical Realism
I kept wishing this book were more like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell so badly that it severely disabled my ability to enjoy what I was reading or even observe it in any objective sense. An okay novel that is damaged, I think, by its "fable" tone--the characters seemed unknowable, inconsequential. ...
This book took me a really long time to read. That statement alone would probably turn a lot of people away from reading the book, and that's most likely for the best. It's not a book meant for everyone (if there really is such a thing). A gorgeous, dense and allusive novel that is surely fantasy ...
We imagine what kind of stories our lives will make as we live them. Through a combination of Memory and Clairvoyance we piece together what we think will be our story, our Tale. John Crowley weaves just such a Tale, a Tale which his characters constantly and explicitly try to piece together for the...
If "A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is really kinda about Beltane, and "The Tempest" had a love-child, it might be "Little, Big" by John Crowley. It came out in 1981 and is in the same Fantasy realm of world-building as Charles DeLint. I can definitely see how one must have influenced the other - ...
Original, Trite. Epic, Weak. Boring, Lively. Rambling, Unspoken. Significant, Inconsequential. Simple, Overwrought. Compact, Frazzled. Vivid, Tasteless. Vague, Determined. Wonderful, Blah. Little, Big. A two-word summary of Little, Big is in the title: a book of opposites. My review could be summe...
10 years ago
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