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  | | Novelties & Souvenirs(1st Edition) Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-380-73106-0, ISBN: 0-380-73106-1 "Pub Date: 2004-04-27 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US In times of questioning and despair. people often quote the Bible to provide answers Surprisingly. though. the Bible does not have one answer but many answers that often. . contradict one another Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers: The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sin The book of Job. which offe ..." |
 | | Otherwise Three Novels by John Crowley Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2002 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093792-8, ISBN: 0-06-093792-0 "The DeepIn a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from beyond the sky arrives to play a part in this dark and bloody pageant. From the moment he is found by two women who tend to the dead in the wake of battles, it is clear that the great game is to change at last.BeastsIt is the day after tomorrow, and society has been altered dramatically by exp ..." |
 | | Little, Big by John Crowley Paperback, 538 Pages, Published 2006 by William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-06-112005-3, ISBN: 0-06-112005-7 " 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 Edgewoodânot found on any mapâto 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 impossibl ..." |
 | | The Translator(Reprint) by John Crowley Paperback, 295 Pages, Published 2003 by Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-380-81537-1, ISBN: 0-380-81537-0 "John Crowley's The Translator is a novel with a time bomb ticking over its head. It takes place during the dark days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as an American coed develops a complicated relationship with an exiled Russian poet who is her college professor, poetic collaborator, and perhaps lover. Innokenti Falin is a man of many secrets--but then, so is Christa Malone. Growing up, her father spoke only vaguely about his work with the ..." |
 | | And Go Like This Stories by John Crowley Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2019 by Small Beer Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-163-0, ISBN: 1-61873-163-7 "Reading John Crowley’s stories is to see almost-familiar lives running parallel to our own, secret histories that never quite happened, memories that might be real or might be invented. In the thirteen stories collected here, Crowley sets his imagination free to roam from a 20th century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award winning story “Spring Break”. And in the previously unpublished “Anosognosia” t ..." |
 | | Ka(Reprint) Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley, Melody Newcomb Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2018 by Gallery / Saga Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-9560-8, ISBN: 1-4814-9560-7 ""Ka is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece." --Los Angeles Times "One of our country's absolutely finest novelists." --Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Interior Darkness and Ghost Story From award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths in the land of Ka. A Crow alone is no Crow. Dar Oakley--the ..." |
 | | Totalitopia (Outspoken Authors) by John Crowley Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Pm Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62963-392-3, ISBN: 1-62963-392-5 "John Crowley's all-new essay "Totalitopia" is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. "This Is Our Town," written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story. One of Crowley’s hard-to-find masterpieces, “Gone” is a Kafkaesque science fiction adventure about an alien invasion. Plus: There's a bibliography, an author bio, and of course an Outspoken Interview, t ..." |
 | | Engine Summer (S.F. Masterworks) by John Crowley Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Gollancz International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-575-08281-6, ISBN: 0-575-08281-X "In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins r ..." |
 | | Aegypt (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) by John Crowley, Grzegorz Domaradzki Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Gollancz ISBN-13: 978-0-575-08300-4, ISBN: 0-575-08300-X "There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments. In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Ægypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that the physical laws of the universe o ..." |
 | | The Chemical Wedding(1st Edition) by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae in a New Version by John Crowley, Theo Fadel, Christian Rosencreutz, Johann Valentin Andreea, Johann Valentin Andreae, Johann Valentin Andreä Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Small Beer Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-108-1, ISBN: 1-61873-108-4 "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." Af ..." |
 | | Four Freedoms(1st Edition) A Novel by John Crowley Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2010 by Harper Perennial Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-123151-3, ISBN: 0-06-123151-7 " In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to combat, a city springs up, seemingly overnight in the fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the necessary machinery of warfare. Laborers—mostly women—flock to this place, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. For Vi, fleeing a dying ranch; for Connie, following an ..." |
 | | Little, Big by John Crowley Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2002 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093793-5, ISBN: 0-06-093793-9 "Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in -- and how it is to end." |
 | | The Translator(1st Edition) by John Crowley Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by William Morrow Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-380-97862-5, ISBN: 0-380-97862-8 "John Crowley's The Translator is a novel with a time bomb ticking over its head. It takes place during the dark days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, as an American coed develops a complicated relationship with an exiled Russian poet who is her college professor, poetic collaborator, and perhaps lover. Innokenti Falin is a man of many secrets--but then, so is Christa Malone. Growing up, her father spoke only vaguely about his work with the ..." |
 | | The Deep by John Crowley Paperback, 186 Pages, Published 1976 by Berkley Medallion ISBN-13: 978-0-425-03163-6, ISBN: 0-425-03163-2 |
 | | Reading Backwards by John Crowley Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2019 by Subterranean Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-59606-946-6, ISBN: 1-59606-946-5 "Reading Backwards is John Crowley's first collection of non-fiction since In Other Words was published in 2007. Like its predecessor, this new book reflects an astonishing range of interests, both literary and otherwise. Like its predecessor, it is a book that no John Crowley fan can afford to miss. The volume opens with the autobiographical “My Life in the Theater,” a memoir of the younger Crowley's earliest ambitions, and closes with ..." |
 | | Four Freedoms(1st Edition) A Novel by John Crowley Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2009 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-06-123150-6, ISBN: 0-06-123150-9 ""So rich and so evocative and so authentic." —Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation "John Crowley is a virtuoso of metaphor, a peerless recreator of living moments, of small daily sublimities.” —New York Times Book Review From the critically acclaimed author of Lord Byron’s Novel and The Translator comes a novel set in World War II America that follows the stories of a group of aircraft factory workers—in particular, the enigmat ..." |
 | | Endless Things(Reprint) (Aegypt Cycle) by John Crowley Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2009 by Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-1-59020-045-2, ISBN: 1-59020-045-4 "Pierce Moffett believes that there are "passages of time" in which the rules governing the world slip and change, causing new times and laws and leaving the old as merely myths and legends, and he is determined to find proof of the phenomenon. Reprint." |
 | | Endless Things(1st Edition) A Part of Aegypt by John Crowley Paperback, 341 Pages, Published 2007 by Small Beer Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931520-22-5, ISBN: 1-931520-22-4 "Praise for the Ægypt sequence:"With Little, Big, Crowley established himself as America’s greatest living writer of fantasy. Ægypt 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 ..." |
 | | The Solitudes(Reprint) (Book One of The Aegypt Cycle) by John Crowley Paperback, 427 Pages, Published 2007 by The Overlook Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58567-986-7, ISBN: 1-58567-986-0 "Reengaging the ideas of alternate lives, worlds, and worldviews that pulsed through his remarkable Little, Big, John Crowley's Ægypt series is a landmark in contemporary fiction. The series helped earn Crowley the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and Harold Bloom installed the first two books in the series in his 1993 Western canon. Now, following the Spring 2007 hardcover release of the final book in the ..." |
 | | The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous(1st Edition) by Suzanne Crowley, John Crowley Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2007 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-123197-1, ISBN: 0-06-123197-5 " Merilee leads a Very Ordered Existence. V.O.E., for short. Her schedule (which must not be altered) includes, among other entries: School (horrendous) Litter patrol (30 minutes daily) Lunch (PB&J and a pickle) Bottle return (Friday only at the Piggly Wiggly) Dame Fiona’s meditation show (Saturday only, 6:00 AM) The V.O.E. is all about precision. Merilee does not have time for Biswick O’Connor. Merilee does not have time for M ..." |
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