Endless Things

Praise for the Aegypt sequence: "With Little, Big, Crowley established himself as America's greatest living writer of fantasy. Aegypt confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period." -Michael Dirda "A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique." -The New York Times Book Review "A master of language, plot, and characterization." -Harold Bloom "The further in you go, the bigger it gets." -James Hynes "The writing here is intricate and thoughtful, allusive and ironic...Aegypt bears many resemblances, incidental and substantive, to Thomas Pynchon's wonderful 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49." -USA Today "An original moralist of the same giddy heights occupied by Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies." -San Francisco Chronicle This is the fourth novel-and much-anticipated conclusion-of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Aegypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Aegypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other. "It is a work of great erudition and deep humanity that is as beautifully composed as any novel in my experience." -Washington Post Book World "An unpredictable, free-flowing, sui generis novel." -Los Angeles Times "With Endless Things and the completion of the Aegypt cycle, Crowley has constructed one of the finest, most welcoming tales contemporary fiction has to offer us." -Book Forum "Crowley's peculiar kind of fantasy: a conscious substitute for the magic in which you don't quite believe any more." -London Review of Books "A beautiful palimpsest as complex, mysterious and unreliable as human memory." -Seattle Times "This year, while millions of Harry Potter fans celebrated and mourned the end of their favorite series, a much smaller but no less devoted group of readers marked another literary milestone: the publication of the last book in John Crowley's Aegypt Cycle." -Matt Ruff "Crowley's eloquent and captivating conclusion to his Aegypt tetralogy finds scholar Pierce Moffet still searching for the mythical Aegypt, an alternate reality of magic...