Little, Big
by John Crowley
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Author: John CrowleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-01
ISBN: 0061120057
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Book Review: Little, Big is a neglected masterpeice..!
Summary: 4 Stars
Little Big is a long and charming book of the kind now rarely written, gently paced, sensuously descriptive and beatifully narrated and plotted. In density it compares to Lord of the Rings or Gormenghast, which may be the reason for it's relative lack of success. It is not a conventional fantasty, eschewing the cod-Tolkienesque props of much more conventional and imitative work. It is a much more ambitious novel; more in the style of a family saga than an epic quest or coming of age.
It proves that there is a vitality in fantasy and it may be re-invented from generation to generation.
If you like fantasty - good fantasy, like LeGuin, Peake, Cordwainer Smith, or Geoff Ryman, then this is a book you should not pass up. The closing chapters have some of the most moving passages I have read, comparing to Gawain's death in Le Morte D'Arthur or Fuchia's suicide in Gormenghast. Yet this is not a sad book, too much joy and love are in it for it to be that.
Read it. The things that make us happy make us wise :-)
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