John Crowley (1) (1942–)
Autor/a de Little, Big
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Sobre l'autor
John Crowley was a recipient of the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He lives in the hills above the Connecticut River in northern Massachusetts with his wife & twin daughters. (Bowker Author Biography)
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Zoe Crowley
Sèrie
Obres de John Crowley
The Chemical Wedding: by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae in a New Version (2016) 97 exemplars
Gone {story} 4 exemplars
Missolonghi 1824 {story} 3 exemplars
Exogamy {short story} 2 exemplars
Science Fiction as Poetry {review} 1 exemplars
The Reason for the Visit {story} 1 exemplars
Where Spirits Gat Them Home 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Col·laborador — 359 exemplars
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Col·laborador — 308 exemplars
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Col·laborador — 265 exemplars
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Col·laborador — 260 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Col·laborador — 253 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Col·laborador — 248 exemplars
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999) — Col·laborador — 116 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen (2019) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1996, Vol. 91, No. 3 (1996) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Embrace the Mutation: Fiction Inspired by the Art of J. K. Potter (2002) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Misunderstanding Cad First Contact SF Masterpiece Selection — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Crowley, John Michael
- Data de naixement
- 1942-12-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Presque Isle, Maine, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Presque Isle, Maine, USA
Vermont, USA
Kentucky, USA
Indiana, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- Indiana University (1965)
- Professions
- senior lecturer (creative writing)
filmmaker
fantasy writer - Organitzacions
- Yale University
- Premis i honors
- World Fantasy Award (Life Achievement, 2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1992) - Agent
- Howard Morhaim (Lotts Agency)
Membres
Converses
Little, Big 25th Anniversary Edition a Fine Press Forum (agost 16)
Little, Big a Hogwarts Express (abril 2013)
Fantasy Novel a Name that Book (octubre 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Same Title (1)
Unread books (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 40
- També de
- 50
- Membres
- 11,411
- Popularitat
- #2,061
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 267
- ISBN
- 248
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 107
- Pedres de toc
- 543
The story revolves around a large and very convoluted family, most of whom live in or around a large and very convoluted house in the middle of nowhere. There's some overlap with the fairy realm there, so that some family members are able to see them, although others can’t, and most lose the ability as they get older.
My Kindle edition had a family tree – at the very end of the book, with no reference to it in the table of contents that might have clued me in to its existence. By the time I saw it, it was too late to do me much good. The most critical people were pretty easy to keep track of though, and since I was reading on the Kindle I was able to search and find prior references if I forgot who someone was, so I did ok without the tree. In the earlier parts of the book, it jumps back and forth in the timeline quite a bit and introduces a large number of characters, but this wasn’t the part I disliked. It felt a little confusing at times, but I was able to follow it and the setting seemed really interesting, so I’d looked forward to learning where everything was going.
The further I got into the book, the less I liked it. The timeline got more linear and the character focus narrowed, but the story became more nebulous. It became more metaphorical and less logical, and there were long sequences where the author wrote about things happening to characters, except that apparently those things weren’t actually happening, or at least not in the way the characters thought they were, to the point that sometimes I was confused about what was “real” in the context of the book and what wasn’t. And then you have
The writing style is more literary I guess, with some odd ways of phrasing things that occasionally required me to re-read a sentence. I wouldn’t call this a funny book, but there were times it made me burst out in surprised laughter because something unexpectedly struck me funny, even toward the end when I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. Sometimes I wasn’t even sure if the things that made me laugh were supposed to be funny. It’s possible I might have been delirious. The ending was as unsatisfying as I expected it to be by the time I finally reached it. This book I think is more about style and atmosphere, but the story itself lacked enough substance for me to sink my teeth into.
I’m rating this at 2.5 stars and rounding down to 2 because I think I would have preferred less sleep.… (més)