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The Solitudes

✍ Scribed by Crowley, John

Book ID: 109963673
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 334 KB
Series: AEgypt 1
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781468304657

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✦ Synopsis

This is the dazzling first novel in a series that will certainly take its place amongst the great books of our time.Reengaging the ideas of alternate lives, worlds, and worldviews that pulsed through his remarkable Little, Big, John Crowley's Agypt series is a landmark in contemporary fiction. The series helped earn Crowley the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and Harold Bloom installed the first two books in the series in his 1993 Western canon. Now, following the Spring 2007 hardcover release of the final book in the series (Endless Things), Overlook is bringing the entire tetralogy back into print and, for the first time, presenting it as a real series. In The Solitudes, the opening of the series, we are introduced to Pierce Moffett, an unorthodox historian and an expert in ancient astrology, myths, and superstition. The land that Moffett studies is not the real, geographical Egypt but Agypt, a country of the imagination. When Moffett discovers the...

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