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A Secret History of the World
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870419
Author:Michael Dirda
AEGYPT By John Crowley Bantam Spectra. 390 pp. $17.95
LITTLE BIG, John Crowley's tale of an American family's long involvement with the realm of faerie, embraced everything from the Tarot to television, from Thornton W. Burgess' animal fables to poignant love stories. Confirming, and surpassing, the artistry of his earlier novels-The Deep, Beasts, and Engine Summer-that superb book established its author as a master of lyrical fantasy, equal in ambition and accomplishment to Ursula Le Guin and Russell Hoban.
If lyrical fantasy sounds rather schmaltzy, another term for Crowley's kind of ...
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