John Crowley (1) (1942–)
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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)
Foto taget av: Photo by Zoe Crowley
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Crowley, John Michael
- Födelsedag
- 1942-12-01
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Presque Isle, Maine, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Presque Isle, Maine, USA
Vermont, USA
Kentucky, USA
Indiana, USA
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Indiana University (1965)
- Yrken
- senior lecturer (creative writing)
filmmaker
fantasy writer - Organisationer
- Yale University
- Priser och utmärkelser
- World Fantasy Award (Life Achievement, 2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1992) - Agent
- Howard Morhaim (Lotts Agency)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Little, Big 25th Anniversary Edition i Fine Press Forum (augusti 16)
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- 50
- Medlemmar
- 11,415
- Popularitet
- #2,061
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 267
- ISBN
- 248
- Språk
- 9
- Favoritmärkt
- 107
- Proberstenar
- 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.… (mer)