John Crowley
1) Little, big
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Once upon a time there was a most peculiar house. Edgewood, a charming old manse of unexpected rooms and illusory angles, sat on the border between reality and fantasy--a place where mortals could mingle with faeries.
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"As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it English. Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, dubbed Earl of Tyrone by the Queen, is a divided man: the Queen gives to Hugh her love, and her commandments, through a little mirror of obsidian which he can never discard; and the ancient peoples of Ireland arise from their underworld to make Hugh their champion,...
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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 And in the previously unpublished “Anosognosia” the...
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"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
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"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...
"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...
7) Aegypt
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Is there more than one history of the world?
In the 1970s, historian Pierce Moffett, newly jilted and jobless, gets off a bus in the Faraway Hills and steps unawares into a story that has been awaiting him there. He has moved to the New England countryside to write a book, driven by an idea he dare not believe—that the physical laws of the universe once changed, and may change again; that before science defined the modern age, other
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Smoky Barnable es un joven anodino que viaja a pie desde la ciudad hasta un lugar de nombre Edgewood, que no figura en ningún mapa, con la intención de casarse con Daily Alice Drinkwater, tal y como le han profetizado. Es una historia épica de cuatro generaciones de una peculiar familia que vive en una casa que es muchas casas. Pero también es la historia de un amor fantástico, de una pérdida desgarradora, de cosas imposibles y destinos inamovibles,...
9) Bestias
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«Crowley escribe con tal fastuosa excelencia que los demás no podemos más que admirarlo y envidiarlo.» -James Morrow, ganador del World Fantasy
10) Boy A
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Convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman. A local newspaper finds out about his past and Jack now finds himself trying to cope with the anger and fear for the safety of their children.
11) Life After Life
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A mesmerising adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s bestselling novel. What if you could live your life again and again until you finally got it right?One snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born and dies before she can take her first breath. On the same night, Ursula is reborn. But this time, she survives. So begins an extraordinary story of fate and second chances that follows Ursula as she navigates the momentous events of the 20th century, through two...
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Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind since early childhood, was a passionate advocate for change, using her celebrity and wit to champion rights for women, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty. Becoming Helen Keller examines the complex legacy of this author, advocate, lecturer, and human rights pioneer.
13) Closed circuit
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One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
14) Brooklyn
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An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
15) The goldfinch
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Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
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Often described 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.
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"Along with a critical essay by Orson Scott Card reassessing science fiction in the twentieth century, Masterpieces includes short fiction by writers who have forged a permanent place for science fiction in the popular culture of today ... and tomorrow. It offers a glimpse of the greatest works that mixed science with fiction in trying to figure out humanity's place in the universe. Featuring bold, brave, and breathtaking stories, this definitive...