Aegypt

Name: Aegypt
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: John Crowley
ISBN: 9781433236303

Author: John Crowley

Narrator: John Crowley

Unabridged: 15 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Is there more than one history of the world? This is the question Pierce Moffett is seeking to answer when, jilted and newly jobless, he gets off a bus by chance and steps unawares on a path toward the longedfor country of our oldest dreams and most unanswerable desires and toward a magnificent discovery.

About John Crowley

John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, and grew up in Vermont, Kentucky, and Ohio. He went to Indiana University and moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. His novels include Little, Big, the Ægypt series, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, and a new edition of The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosenkreutz. He recently retired after teaching creative writing at Yale for twenty-five years. He has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, Mythopoeic, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. He lives in Conway, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gabrielle

3 and a half... I think? So before I get into the review, a few things you need to know about this book. This is not a book for everyone. It's complicated, it requires the reader to stop and think really hard constantly, there's little to no "external" plot, but what's going on inside the characters......more

Goodreads review by Marley

This cuts my soul the way prime John Crowley always does, but this book takes that stream of inspiration to its most fantastically baroque consequences. This is the author of "Little, Big" writing both "Foucault's Pendulum" and something like the "Quicksilver" books simultaneously. With some borrowe......more

Goodreads review by Mindy

So you have read The Solitudes or (this is the same book) Aegypt, and you're wondering whether you'd like to read the other three books in this tetralogy (The Aegypt Cycle). So -- no spoilers -- here's what I can tell you: Pierce Moffett and the people of Blackbury Jambs remain prominent in all four......more