Little, Big
John Crowley · 1981
A multigenerational saga of the Drinkwater family and their relationship with Faerie, told in prose of extraordinary beauty. The world gets larger the further in you go. Crowley wrote the most literary fantasy novel of the 20th century.
The case against
Crowley's prose is so upholstered that the story moves like furniture. The Drinkwaters drift passively through their own Tale; whenever something might happen, it happens offstage, by fairy logic nobody explains. And the late subplot, in which Frederick Barbarossa returns as an American demagogue, arrives from nowhere and convinces almost no one.
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