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Little, Big
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061120053
ISBN: 0061120057
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: October 01, 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Editorial Review: 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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Rating:  - "Besides cats, there was the dog Spark."
I can imagine that this isn't the easiest book to read, particularly for people who are coming to the book primarily because they are fans of the fantasy genre. The book is dense; the prose is dense. This also isn't the kind of book that sets up a simple plot. No epic quest or visible evil. There's a kind of a war, but also not. The tension gathers like a looming cloud more than it presents itself in three-act restorative structure. Actually, a thunderstorm is the best analogy that I can think of ... Read More
Rating:  - A little annoying
I just started to read the Book. So far I eke out to page 86. The Story itself is interesting and that is the only reason I decided to continue.
After 60 Pages I started first time to count the iteration of the word "though". It seems to be the Author`s favorite and at some pages I could find it up to four times.
I am very sorry but this uninspired writing is nothing else but annoying and for a foreigner who`s mother-tongue is not english and who wants to read books not last for practice, ... Read More
Rating: - This may well be my favorite book of all time
I've read four or five of John Crowley's books and only this one speaks to me. There's something about the juxtaposition of the mythic and the mundane, the historic with the fantastic, and most importantly the fairy story with everyday life that just floored me the first time I read the book and continues to amaze me every time I return to it.
Rating: - 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 poetry, or like language for the sake of language. I am a reader who enjoys the slipstream of language that one typically finds in poetry: taking many words, allegories, symbols to describe an emotion more so than a place or event. If your reading style is ... Read More
Rating: - Non sequiturs (and asides) to no end
Crowley once wrote a decent short story `snow' that was collected in Gardner Dozois's `best of' anthologies, but this novel is humorless pedantry. Crowley seems to have broad-brush ideas (I think very interesting ideas) that are unworkable in his hands, so he does the literary workshop thing: mystify, mystify, and mystify some more, with non-sequiturs and momentum-killers all the way. And big books sell better than small books, this he probably learned with the commercial failure of `engine summer' ... Read More
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