Little, Big
The tale of faerie loved and acclaimed by readers for decades
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:12th Feb '15
Should be back in stock very soon
A magical, funny, eloquent, unforgettable fantasy about a house filled with enchantment and the strange folk who inhabit it. Introduction by Graham Sleight.
Edgewood 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, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness.
Crowley's work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world which seems more true and real. Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD, LITTLE, BIG is eloquent, sensual, funny and unforgettable, a true Fantasy Masterwork.
Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL, 1982.
There are some people - and I'm one of them - for whom life consists only of passing the time between novels by John Crowley * Michael Chabon *
A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy * Ursula K. Le Guin *
I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust * Peter Straub *
Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvellous magic-realist family chronicle * Washington Post *
This book is the closest thing to a fever dream or a psychedelic experience that I've ever found in terms of literature [. . .] bizarre beyond words, but beautiful beyond description * Tim Ferriss *
- Winner of World Fantasy Award 1982 (UK)
- Short-listed for British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 1983 (UK)
ISBN: 9781473205475
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 38mm
Weight: 436g
560 pages