Little, Big

Paperback, 560 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2002 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:
978-0-06-093793-5
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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 Edgewood—not found on any map—to 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 impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

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I still remember the days before Goodreads gave one the chance, or you might instead say "urged one," to begin a review as soon as one admitted one was reading it. It feels recent and yet it may have been several years ago when this turn was taken. I welcomed it at first because by the time I reached the end of a book I had so often forgotten things I wanted to say at the beginning but once it became the default, that opportunity to not forget turned threateningly in to a frontloading of the reading process. As one who abandons more than I complete, though I wasn't always such, I wonder if I will become more likely to DNF once I've already had my say.

Some things, it is clear are not going to change in the pages that follow (though I am listening to it in audio …

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Subjects

  • Contemporary Fantasy
  • Magical Realism
  • Fantasy
  • Fiction, romance, fantasy
  • American Fantasy fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Romance fiction
  • Families
  • Fiction
  • Fairies
  • Magic

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