![]() ![]() And to read it is to experience a kind of delightful unfolding, as new vistas, patterns, styles and connections continually emerge, and the story departs in wonderfully unanticipated directions. ![]() ![]() It also has elements of fable, fantasy and fairy tale - in the latter case, quite literally. It's a multi-generational epic and a work of magical realism, in the vein of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (another favorite of mine). Similarly, Little, Big feels like many books, and even many literary traditions within a vast, intricately organized novel. It unfolds, as the viewer circles around it, to reveal many different facades - Victorian, modern, gothic - like a complex piece of origami. Edgewood is designed by the patriarch, a renowned architect, to be many houses within a single structure. ![]() John Crowley's Little, Big, an extraordinary, sweeping and strange novel, can perhaps be best described through the metaphor of its central setting: Edgewood, the house in which many generations (and permutations) of the Drinkwater family live. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Little, Big Author John Crowley ![]()
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