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Little, Big

or, The Fairies’ Parliament

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Little, Big

Autor: John Crowley
Czyta: John Crowley
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Edgewood—which is not found on any map—is many houses, all put inside each other or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment; the further in you go, the bigger it gets.

Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, travels from the City on foot to Edgewood, her family home. There he finds himself on the magical border of an otherworld.

Crowley's work has a special alchemy—mixing the world we know with an imagined world that seems more true and real. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Little, Big is elegant, sensual, funny, and unforgettable. 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.

©1981 , 2012, by John Crowley. Edition © 2010 by Ron Drummond (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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“A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.”

(Ursula K. Le Guin)

“Little, Big is one of those sprawling, dream-like fantasy novels that has very British sensibilities but, paradoxically, it takes the Americans to do really well...The esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom called Little, Big ‘a neglected masterpiece. The closest achievement we have to the Alice stories of Lewis Carroll’, and the vast novel does have an almost soporific, Wonderland quality to it—best read on lazy days in dappled sunshine.”

(Guardian (London))

“Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.”

(Peter Straub, award-winning horror fiction author)

“One of my favorite works of modern fantasy, Little, Big is an amazing tale told in an amazing way. Reading it I felt as if I were watching a high-wire artist: one slip and he would fall into the dreadful net of Twee. Yet Crowley never slips, not upon a single word, and the book grows more powerful with every page.”

(Katharine Kerr, bestselling author)

“John Crowley writes sentences of such coruscating magnificence that the rest of the English language has fallen in love with them. I once knew an adverbial clause who was so infatuated with the linguistic beauty of Little, Big that the poor creature pined away into a comma.”

(James Morrow, World Fantasy Award–winning author)

“Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle.”

(Washington Post)

“A haunting and suspenseful adventure transports the listener into a realm at once enchantingly ethereal and grounded in our ordinary world. John Crowley knows the essence of this setting best and proves it as narrator, delivering just the right combination of amazement and aplomb. Nicole Vilencia announces titles within the chapters. Her breathy and resonant voice is reminiscent of a fairy queen…This intergenerational fantasy dazzles with is elegant, lyrical prose. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

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As enjoyable as a summer breeze or the crunch of new snow. Seasons and generations, memory and mystery, all fold into an origami of wondrous mundane magic, ordinarily arcane instruments.

Haunting, beautiful

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Unfortunately this audiobook is narrated by its author. Based on my own (admittedly restricted) experience I think it’s rarely a good idea for an author to read his / her own book. This one here is another example on why it’s better to have professional actors/ actresses narrate a book. I disliked the author’s voice and especially his style of narrating (too fast and at the same time very dull and kind of monotonous) so much that I couldn’t bring myself to listen more than just the first chapter and therefore decided to return it. I’m going to read the ebook version instead

Fascinating Fantasy Novel

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