Description

A master literary stylist, John Crowley has transported visitors to varied and amazing locations in his award winning, critically-acclaimed books -- from his traditional myth, Little, Big, to his Ny Times Notable Book, The Translator. Today, for the very first time, all his short fiction hasbeen collected in one volume, showing the eyesight, the range, and the question of one of America's best storytellers. Accomplishment and bravery asked and are recognized, paradoxes analyzed, and individual frailty valued in fifteen stories, at the same time sexy and lyrical, running fromthe wonderful towards the achingly true. Be it an account of an expulsion from Eden, a trip through time, the desires of the failed author, ora useless ladyis uncertain heritage, each account in Gifts & Novelties is just a wonderful reading expertise, providing pleasures to be savored, and appreciated.