—The Washington Post Book World
THE SOLITUDES
BOOK ONE OF THE ÆGYPT CYCLE
Published
“A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique. … The narrative startles the reader again and again with the eloquent rightness of the web of coincidences that structure it.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“One of the finest, most welcome tales contemporary fiction had to offer us.”
—Bookforum
ISBN 978-1-58567-986-7
LOVE & SLEEP
BOOK TWO OF THE ÆGYPT CYCLE
Published
“Crowley is an abundantly gifted writer, a scholar whose passion for history is matched by his ability to write a graceful sentence.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A profound story about childhood mystery, parenthood, love, death, and the unexpected tricks and traps history uses to transform us. John Crowley, I predict, will emerge as American Lit’s next Cormac McCarthy.”
—Spin
ISBN 978-1-59020-015-5
ENDLESS THINGS
BOOK FOUR OF THE ÆGYPT CYCLE
Coming September 2008
“With Endless Things and the completion of the Ægypt cycle, Crowley has constructed one of the finest, most welcoming tales contemporary fiction has to offer us.” —BookForum
ISBN 978-1-59020-045-2
“A prophecy of America entering the authentic new age: Magical, potentially destructive, and utterly uncanny. … A masterpiece.”
—HAROLD BLOOM
In Dæmonomania—volume three of the acclaimed epic Ægypt cycle—the concerns of everyday life are beginning to transmute into the extraordinary and to reveal the forces, dark and light, that truly govern our lives. So it is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian, who has moved to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover a path into magic, past and present. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and his girlfriend Rosie must take sides in an age-old war that is approaching its final battle. Dæmonomania is a journey into the very mystery of existence: What is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in our lives.
“As disturbing as it is compelling … A book to get utterly lost in. Like a magus, John Crowley shares his secrets generously, allowing us to believe that his book is revealing the true and glorious nature of the world, and the reader’s own place within it.”
—The Village Voice
“A major new novel from an author whose writing is a dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“[Crowley] transforms the lead of daily life into seriously dazzling artistic gold.”
—Newsday
JOHN CROWLEY was born in the town of Presque Isle, Maine. He is the author of several novels, including Little, Big and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land. The Solitudes and Love & Sleep (the first and second volumes of the Ægypt cycle) were enshrined in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon. Crowley teaches at Yale University.
DAEMONOMANIA: Book Three of the Aegypt Cycle Page 63