Novelties & souvenirs : collected short fiction / John Crowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowley, John, 1942-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

336 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Novelties and souvenirs

Place of Publication:

New York : Perennial, [2004]

Summary:

A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one volume, demonstrating the scope, the vision, and the wonder of one of America's greatest storytellers. Courage and achievement are celebrated and questioned, paradoxes examined, and human frailty appreciated in fifteen tales, at once lyrical and provocative, ranging from the fantastic to the achingly real. Be it a tale of an expulsion from Eden, a journey through time, the dreams of a failed writer, or a dead woman's ambiguous legacy, each story in Novelties & Souvenirs is a glorious reading experience, offering delights to be savored ... and remembered.

Contents:

Antiquities 1

Her Bounty to the Dead 12

The Reason for the Visit 24

The Green Child 32

Novelty 38

Snow 59

The Nightingale Sings at Night 80

Great Work of Time 114

In Blue 216

Missolonghi 1824 276

Exogamy 289

Lost and Abandoned 294

Gone 302

An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings 319

The War Between the Objects and the Subjects 333.

ISBN:

0380731061

OCLC:

53101081