AEGYPT. - Hardcover

Crowley, John.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575041080 ISBN 13: 9780575041080

Publisher: NY: BANTAM. 1987, 1987

Synopsis

First UK edition, worn dust jacket is now in a protective sleeve, page edges tanned. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

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About the Author

John Crowley is an American writer who has also worked in television and documentary films. His fantasy and science fiction have established him as a major voice in imaginative writing. His other novels include The Deep, Engine Summer, AEgypt, and Little, Big.

From Publishers Weekly

Reengaging the motifs of alternate lives, worlds and world-views that pulsed through his remarkable Little, Big, Crowley's new novel shapes itself around unorthodox historian Pierce Moffett, who seeks to explain the secret histories of the world, the old notions of science, religion and philosophy that have survived in astrology, myths and superstition; not the real, geographical Egypt, but AEgypt, the cognate country of the imagination from which the gypsies came. In resonating stories nested one inside the other, Crowley describes Blackbury Jambs, Pa., where among ex-students turned shepherds and mystics turned babysitters, Pierce finally finds himself part of a community and rediscovers the source of his quest, the historical novels of local writer Fellowes Kraft, who has his own stories to tellof young Will Shakespeare, Elizabethan Doctor John Dee's desire to speak with angels and Giordano Bruno's thirst to understand his world, for which he would be burned as a heretic. Affecting, cerebral, surprising and delightful, this extraordinary philosophical romance suggests an unlikely but thriving marriage between a writer like Anne Tyler and one such as Jorge Luis Borges.
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Edition details

• Publisher: NY: BANTAM. 1987
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575041080
• ISBN 13: 9780575041080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400