Love & Sleep (The Aegypt Cycle, Book 2) - Softcover

Crowley, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590200152 ISBN 13: 9781590200155

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2008

Synopsis

In its recent review of the fourth (and final) Ægypt novel, Bookforum said: "We may one day look on Ægypt's publishing history with the same head-scratching curiosity with which we now regard Melville's tragic struggles and André Gide's decision to turn down Swann's Way." As those words were being typed, Overlook was well into the process of reclaiming the magnificent tetralogy, and with the publication of The Solitudes, readers re-entered the fantastic world that enthralled reviewers and was enshrined in Harold Bloom's Western Canon. In Love & Sleep, the second volume of the series, the professor Pierce Moffett finds himself at a great turning point in the history of the world. As a child, Pierce was no stranger to magic, but those revelations faded with time. Now Pierce's search for a secret history of the world--one in which magic works and angels speak to humankind--has begun again. Love & Sleep is followed by the third volume in the Ægypt cycle, Dæmonomania, and the fourth, Endless Things.

About this title

About the Author:

John Crowley was born in the appropriately liminal town of Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942, his father then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college. He moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. He published his first novel (The Deep) in 1975, and his 14th volume of fiction (Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land) in 2005. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at Yale University. In 1992 he received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He finds it more gratifying that almost all his work is still in print.

Synopsis:

Pierce Moffett, growing up in the hills of Kentucky with his cousins, experiences a world that, underneath the surface, is fundamentally different than the world today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1590200152
• ISBN 13: 9781590200155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 510