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This is a collection of fifteen short stories by John Crowley. Each story is lyrical and provocative, ranging from the fantastic to the achingly real. The stories celebrate courage and achievement, paradoxes are examined, and human frailty is appreciated.
A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable,
Little, Big, to his
New York Times Notable Book,
The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one volume, demonstrating the scope, the vision, and the wonder of one of America's greatest storytellers. Courage and achievement are celebrated and questioned, paradoxes examined, and human frailty appreciated in fifteen tales, at once lyrical and provocative, ranging fromthe fantastic to the achingly real. Be it a tale of an expulsion from Eden, a journey through time, the dreams of a failed writer, ora dead woman's ambiguous legacy, each story in
Novelties & Souvenirs is a glorious reading experience, offering delights to be savored ... and remembered.
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