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The Chemical Wedding

by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae in a New Version

John Crowley author Theo Fadel illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Small Beer Press

Published:1st Dec '16

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400th anniversary edition(!). We are going to do a Kickstarter for a limited hardcover edition which will work as prepublicity for the paperback. Advertising in print and online magazines. Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

A new edition celebrating the 400th anniversary of one of the most outlandish stories in Western literature. With new illustrations.Praise for John Crowley: "Like a magus, John Crowley shares his secrets generously, allowing us to believe that his book is revealing the true and glorious nature of the world and the reader's own place within it."—Village Voice "[Crowley] transforms the lead of daily life into seriously dazzling artistic gold."—Newsday Often de-scribed as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is "the first science fiction novel." After all "it's fiction; it's about the possibilities of a science; and it's a novel." No matter what else it might be, it's definitely "one of the great outlandish stories in Western literature." With eight appropriately weird and fascinating black and white woodcuts by Theo Fadel. John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942. He moved to New York City after college in Indiana to make movies, and did find work in docu-mentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He has published many novels including the Ae-gypt quartet and Little, Big. He teaches creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He finds it more gratifying that almost all his work is still in print. Theo Fadel has a BA in Archeology (Bryn Mawr) and a Master of Architecture from Co-lumbia University. Currently her studio is in Easthampton, and she's been in Massachusetts less than a hundred years. This is the first book she has illustrated.

ISBN: 9781618731081

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 382g

224 pages