Recommended by 4 notable people, including Tim Ferriss and Neil Gaiman
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See customer reviews on Amazon →John Crowley's Little, Big reads like a long, lyrical fairy tale folded into a family chronicle; its pleasure is in language, detail, and the slow blurring of ordinary life with uncanny edges. Scenes arrive as accumulative tableaux rather than tight plot turns, so what works best is mood and layered atmosphere rather than clear action. The main limitation is the book's fondness for digression and ornate sentences, which can stall momentum and frustrate readers who prefer fast plots. Best tackled in measured chunks so images have time to settle.
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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_x0097_not found on any map_x0097_to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, 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 o...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Tim Ferriss, Most Recommended Books, and Fantasy.
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