For the people in this novel, the concerns of everyday life are beginning to transmute into the extraordinary and to reveal the forces, dark and light, that truly govern their lives. So it is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian and author, who...
This is the fourth novel-and much-anticipated conclusion-of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Ægypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance...
Pierce Moffett stands at a turning point, when the world is changing from what it has been into what it will be. Is it only a moment in the history of his own soul? Or the course of his generation's progress toward maturity?
As a child Pierce...
The Solitudes is the first volume of the Ægypt Cycle. This volume originally appeared in 1987 as Ægypt, with The Solitudes only as an an internal title. It can now appear as I first imagined it would, under its original title. The entire Cycle,...