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Madeleine is shocked when Abigail says that she doesn't want to go to college; Bonnie exhibits worrying behavior; Perry's grief-ridden mother arrives in Monterey.

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Renata faces an uncertain future when Gordon lands in legal trouble; Celeste opens up to Mary Louise about her relationship with Perry; Ed confronts Madeline about her secrets.

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Renata discovers that Amabella is experiencing a crisis at school; Madeleine and Ed go into couples therapy; Mary Louise sets her sights on Jane and Ziggy; Celeste struggles with the possibility that she was addicted to Perry.

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Renata throws Amabella a disco-themed birthday bash; after attending a prying bankruptcy hearing with Gordon; Celeste begins to unravel under a drastic decision made by Mary Louise; Madeleine and Ed remain at odds.

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Renata tries to help Celeste; Bonnie struggles with her mother's recovery; Celeste attends a custody hearing; Josh, Max and Ziggy are bullied by a boy at school.

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Celeste is blindsided by Mary Louise; Bonnie contemplates a solution to her mother's suffering and her own ongoing guilt; The Monterey Five feel the pressure of increased scrutiny of Perry's death.

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Celeste questions Mary Louise about a tragic event from Perry's childhood; Madeline worries their lie is tearing the Monterey Five apart.

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John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a...more

Published October 17th 2006 by Harper Collins Publishers (first published September 1981)

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Dan'lThis is a family chronicle, like Joyce Carol Oates' _Bellefleur_. It is intentionally expansive, echoing the architecture of the house, Edgewood, in…moreThis is a family chronicle, like Joyce Carol Oates' _Bellefleur_. It is intentionally expansive, echoing the architecture of the house, Edgewood, in its intricately interwoven sprawl.
In fact, it is many stories, all tied up in the ongoing Tale. It's about people and relationships and the impossibility of sharing personal truths even - perhaps especially - with those one most loves.
The magic intrudes so oddly, and seamlessly, that the realism is able to persist undiminished. The joy of the book is in the familiar detail that allows these extraordinary characters to be instantly familiar, only growing moreso as the story unfolds.
This is not a book to read in a hurry to reach a resolution. The pleasure is in savoring each turn, each new scene unfolding as if turning an unexpected corner inside or outside Edgewood, and taking the time to let that sink in, to take one's bearings before moving on.(less)

SheherazahdeI believe the book explicitly says that he was amused at how apropo the name was. The bridge would be noisy if a gun club was meeting there.

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Jun 14, 2007Oriana rated it it was amazing

I've given a lot of thought to this review: how to begin, how to describe this story, how to explain my utter adoration for it, and most importantly, what words I might use to successfully make everyone read this book right now.
As you can probably imagine, I've come up rather short on all counts.
How do you talk about a book which seems to either redefine or cause to shrivel all the normal descriptors one attaches to works of fiction?
I mean, strictly speaking, you'd have to call this an epic fa...more

Apr 27, 2010Michael rated it it was ok

Shelves: 1980s, fiction-that-speculates, most-popular-reviews

This book astounded me. Not in a good way. I expected to like 'Little, Big' quite a bit from what I'd heard about it. But, like the Drinkwater house, it looks smaller on the outside than it feels from inside. Not in a good way. I mean the book feels like it's a thousand pages.
Some people like it, as you can tell by other reviews: the language is often quite clever, it ends on a semi-strong note, and it plays with myth in some interesting ways. These are all good things.
Bad things? Well, the cha...more

Jun 14, 2007mark monday rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: alpha-team, legendarium, super-private-journal, secret-histories

sometimes, when dreaming, i am aware of a complex and mysterious history to the at times strange but often mundane narrative of the dream itsef. i'll be running away from something, against some dark background, a house or castle or a school, who knows... although the drama of running is clear, there's often a feeling that so many things have already happened before i started running, things of which i'm only dimly aware, a whole story has happened or is happening in which i'm only getting bits...more

Apr 19, 2014Camille Stein rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Illustration: Peter Milton http://ow.ly/U0izq
En un momento de silencio se miraron simplemente el uno al otro y la verdad zumbó, tronó dentro de él cuando comprendió de pronto lo que había sucedido: no sólo él se había enamorado de ella, y a primera vista, sino que ella a primera vista se había enamorado de él, y las dos circunstancias producían ese efecto: el de empezar a curar su anonimato. No a disfrazarlo, que era lo que George Ratón había tratado de hacer, sino a curarlo, de dentro hacia...more

May 05, 2018Algernon (Darth Anyan) rated it it was amazing

The story of a house all lit, the house of four floors, seven chimneys, three hundred and sixty-five stairs, fifty-two doors, traveled far; they were all travelers then. It met another story, a story about a world elsewhere, and a family whose names many knew, whose house had been large and populous with griefs and happinesses that had once seemed endless, but had ended, or had stopped; and to those many who still dreamed of that family as often as of their own, the two stories seemed one. The...more

May 02, 2018Bradley rated it it was amazing

This will be an easy review for a glorious book of Fae, story, and four generations of an interesting family.
To say it's lyrical misses the point of the theme, that the deeper you look, the bigger it gets. It's true for this novel as it is true for any one of us. A surface glance might get you caught in a fae's trap, such as a kingfisher for a gas station, but when you get caught in the web of love, children, changelings, careers, more love, story, story, and more story, whole vistas open up bef...more

May 28, 2007Andrew Horton rated it it was amazing

Little, Big is the greatest book I have ever read. It is living magic in text form, and it has a truly transformative effect on the reader. I understand that it meanders a bit in the middle section and goes off on a strange-ish quasi-political tangent toward the end, but everything is purposeful and comes together to achieve a singular effect - literally every single sentence is essential and purposeful to the grand narrative. When I finished it, I immediately felt like re-reading it to catch ev...more

Jan 25, 2014Phrynne rated it it was ok · review of another edition

What a terrible shame. I was so set to love this book. The blurb was good, magical realism is one of my favourite things, the book cover is so pretty, I was so sure I was in for a five star read. And for about 100 pages everything went well. Then I realised that despite the beautiful writing style there was nothing for me to like. The story was thin, the characters barely existed , much of the writing became incomprehensible. I didn't give up and trudged on to the bitter end. And I still do not...more

Aug 20, 2012Angie rated it did not like it

I'm someone who always finishes a book, but this one was impossible. Could the author have made the female characters more apathetic, more passive, more dull, more flat and stereotypical? One is completely fine that her husband cheats on her with her own sister. The sister sleeps through her almost-rape by a cousin. They never leave the house, never do anything. And the men are no better - you've got the brother who has sex with a 14 year old (and anyone else who'll have him until he kills himse...more

Oct 14, 2007Miss_otis rated it did not like it

I tried to read this but just couldn't slog my way through it.
The jacket copy sounded really intriguing, but I didn't get halfway through it. The biggest problem I had with this book was that I felt tried far too hard to be Airy and Phantasmagorical and Mystically Vague and forgot that a plot was actually necessary. It wanders and doesn't actually get anywhere, the prose was overstuffed, and not a single character actually caught my attention. I was disappointed, beause it was a very interestin...more

Dec 30, 2011Kat Hooper rated it really liked it · review of another edition

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.
'Don't be sad. It's all so much larger than you think.'
Smoky Barnable lives in the City and thinks of himself as anonymous. His father is dead and his step-siblings have forgotten him. He has no friends at all until he meets George Mouse who introduces him to his strange family. Smoky falls in love with one of George's cousins, Daily Alice Drinkwater, and he moves upcountry to the Drinkwater estate called Edgewood. At his wedding he meets the Drinkwater fa...more

Jul 20, 2008Dan Schwent rated it liked it

Little, Big is the story fo a family that lives in a house called Edgewood, far to the north of The City. It follows the family from generation to generation. Let's just say fairies play a part in the lives of the Drinkwaters and their relatives.
The only book I can compare it to at the moment is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but that's more of a subject matter thing. The writing is very rich and detailed. While I was reading it, I thought it would be the best book I read that year. Whatever...more

Dec 01, 2012Fuchsia Groan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Qué complicado hacer una reseña de esta novela. “Un libro que requiere por sí solo una redefinición de lo fantástico” según Ursula K. Le Guin.
La palabra fascinante se queda corta para describirla.
Pequeño, grande, o El parlamento de las hadas.
Pequeño es, quizás, la saga familiar de los Bebeagua, una historia de amor algo revuelta, la historia de Fumo Barnable, un personaje anodino que llega de la ciudad para vivir en Bosquedelinde, esa maravilla arquitectónica que proyectó el bisabuelo de Llana...more

Aug 28, 2007Bobby rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Fans of John Cheever who believe in fairies

Reading 'Little, Big' you find every last detail infused with magic, wonder and mystery. When you encounter a talking stork, you think 'Of course, why wouldn't the stork talk?'.
A lot of the Gnostic and Hermetic concepts that Crowley explores in the Aegypt tetraology are also here in some form. They're given a less complete treatment, but nonetheless permeate the novel, including the 'Art of Memory' as practiced by Giordano Bruno in Aegypt, and by Ariel Hawskquill and Auberon Drinkwater here. Al...more

Oct 13, 2009Marley rated it it was amazing

I really didn't think I was going to give this one five stars, not even 400 pages in. I respected its craft, definitely. I was calling Crowley 'maniacally subtle' to try to explain the inching, sometimes painfully slow unfolding of dramatic motion--and the sense that this whole book was an elaborate blind for a very clear and simple storyline hidden underneath. Crowley as much as tells you so in one of his many little metafictional asides about the Tale. But even as I latched onto fascinating mo...more

Apr 10, 2009Paul Bryant rated it did not like it

One thing is for sure, if Little,Big is ever filmed, Quentin Tarantino won’t be directing it. From what I could tell this book is the daytime TV version of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and that was itself the janeaustinized version of Dracula with a few knobs on. I did get through all 2,599 pages of that epic of narcolepsy, so when I figured how Little, Big was going to pan out, when I could keep my eyes open long enough, I said to myself hey, Mr Once Bitten, stop this nonsense now!
For a rha...more

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Aug 16, 2008Sandi rated it really liked it

There is no way one could ever adequately describe “Little, Big” by John Crowley. It is an epic of minute proportions. Its 500+ pages skip back and forth through several generations and between the “real” world and the fairy world. The reason I put the word “real” in quotes is because the real world of “Little, Big” bears no more resemblance to our world. While this novel has a lot of characters, they are more like sketches than sculptures. You never get a sense of any solidness to them. They fl...more

Feb 03, 2011Simon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is one of those books that is hard to talk about. Maybe best to describe by analogy.
So imagine a tangled ball of wool with which you are following a strand as it winds its way in around the other strands, in and out of the tangle until eventually you find the other end of the thread, somewhere not too far from where you started.
The narrative flows a bit like that. It nips back and forwards in time, hops from one character to another, spanning several generations of a sprawling family as we...more

A slow-burner, this one. Not in the traditional sense of a story with a gradual build-up and overflowing end. The events within what little plot there is are evenly spread out. Rather, as this tale languidly unfolds, its wonders seep deeper and deeper into the reader’s subconscious well.
The dreamlike and otherworldly logic that saturates nearly every passage in Little, Big often lulled me into a pleasant hypnagocic stupor. Normally when sleep creeps up on me while reading I end up later having t...more

Aug 24, 2016Pavle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: probrana-družina, preletači-ili-medjužanr

'The further in you go, the bigger it gets.'
Citat iz knjige: o knjizi, o porodici Drinkvoter, o vilama i raznim svetovima u svetovima, veći u manjem, o životu.
Nešto kao Markesovih Sto godina samoće, obrnuto u ogledalu. Ako je Markes pisao o porodici u običnom svetu sa notom magijskog, Krouli piše o porodici u magijskom svetu sa notom običnog. Ipak, nije ovo tradicionalna fantastika, nego nešto izmedju. Potpuno jedinstvena, zaslepljujuća knjiga, zahtevna, jedna koja uvlači u sebe (jer što dal...more

Feb 17, 2013Mizuki rated it really liked it

Shelves: wonderful, fairies-related, supernatural-stuff, chinese-translation

4.5 stars, it's a highly imaginative book, even though it might be a bit difficult to get into. Still I admire the author for respecting readers' intelligence. He didn't tell you who is supposed to be who, what is supposed to be what straight away as if he thinks we readers are all idiots who have to be told 1+1=2 other than figuring things out on our own.
Update: 11/04/2014:
It's still a highly imaginative novel about faeries and the mysterious Drinkwater Family, of Edgewood. Generation after gen...more

Aug 27, 2011colleen the convivial curmudgeon rated it it was ok

I had pretty decent hopes for this book, and maybe that's lent itself, a bit, to the air of disappointment I was left with... but let's start at the beginning.
The prose style is lyrical and others have described it as 'dream-like' - something with which I can agree. At first I had a hard time getting into it, but once I sort of settled into the style I rather enjoyed it as it set up the story of the Bramble-Drinkwaters ('cause, really, even though the cover say it's Smoky's tale it's not, really...more

Aug 28, 2009Mosca rated it it was amazing

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Shelves: favorites, to-be-re-read

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The most readily evident characteristic of this book is the beautiful, almost musical prose that weaves throughout the telling of this “Tale”. The world created is seductive and at times dreamlike. The characters are so well introduced and sustained that you feel that they are good friends, even as you know their weaknesses.
For these reasons only, this book is worth the effort. But other reasons also abound.
Please, read this bo...more

This is the third time I've read this book. Why keep reading a book that I've only (begrudgingly) given two stars too? Because every time I've finished it I did so loathing it, but as time passed I always forgot why I loathed it and became slightly convinced that it was me, and not the book, that I hadn't read it carefully enough, or thought about it properly, that there was some thing that could easily be removed that once I figured it out would leave me honestly loving a book I'd only felt lik...more

I'm not going to try and write a detailed review of this book. I wouldn't even know where to begin. Though I suppose outlining how 'epic' the story is would be a decent starting point. 'Epic' in what sense? Well, it's between 500 and 600 pages for a start, depending on which edition you have, so it's not a light undertaking (literally!). But more importantly, it's epic in the way it recounts the Tale of the Drinkwater family, across four generations, spanning the 20th century, and a seemingly en...more

Jan 21, 2015Branwen *of House Targaryen* rated it it was amazing

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.'
In upstate New York, in the wild and unpredictable countryside, there lies a house known as Edgewood. Like it's name implies, it lies near a large and mysterious wood. In this hous...more

May 01, 2008Eddie Watkins rated it it was amazing

This book is like life to me. A dangerous statement, but true! It has the feel of all the moments of my life as it unfolds. It has all the wisdom and subtle instruction by example that is necessary for a rich and various life. It limns many of the other layers of life that are left out of 'realist' fiction, and so it's been called fantasy, and until recently that is the section where you would always find this book. But this is reality fiction, and it's hard for me to imagine a person whose actu...more

Jun 05, 2012Wanda rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: speculative-fiction, reading-project, read-in-2014, fae-fairy, fantasy, public-library

It seems to me that John Crowley had both older fairy stories and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in mind while he was writing Little, Big. There is a parallel world beside (or maybe simultaneously inhabiting) Edgewood, and, like older versions of fairy stories, its inhabitants seem to be maybe indifferent or maybe hostile to humanity. Smoky spends his life like many of the men who marry into the Drinkwater/Bramble family, wondering what exactly is going on and not really getting a strai...more

Sep 12, 2016Το Άσχημο Ρύζι Καρολίνα rated it liked it

Η βαθμολογία δεν είναι ενδεικτική, αλλά κατά παραχώρηση.
Στην αρχή υπήρχε ένα πράγμα που με ενοχλούσε (μετά έγιναν περισσότερα). Ήταν αυτός ο μαγικός ντετερμινισμός που κρύβεται πίσω από μια φράση, του μότο όλων όσων ζουν μέσα στον καταπιεστικό κύκλο της «Ίστορίας» (Tale, την ονομάζει ο συγγραφέας, κάτι ανάμεσα στην Διήγηση και Παραμύθι), μια ρήση όπου όλοι φαίνεται πως ασπάζονται με την μέγιστη παραίτηση, με ένα μοιρολατρικό ανασήκωμα των ώμων, χωρίς ποτέ να επαναστατούν (ή όταν το κάνουν, το...more

Jul 11, 2008Terry rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Ok, some Crowley I love and some Crowley...not so much. Unfortunately this one, the book that most consider his masterpiece, falls into the latter category for me. As always Crowley's mastery of prose is readily apparent, but you know what? This is a pretty dull book. Granted the kind of long, ambling family history that Crowley is writing here is rarely full of slap-bang action, but the pace here is often glacial and while there are, as always, sparkling moments studded throughout the book I ju...more

Mar 29, 2008Margaret rated it it was amazing

A huge and endearing family saga that includes the magical and empirical. The first time I tried to read this book, I was recovering from surgery and could not stay awake. After 138 pages I gave up. Two years later I was browsing in Barnes & Noble and saw that Harold Bloom said that the book was his favorite. Give me a break, I thought, but I went back and started again. Being awake made a huge difference, and I ended up loving this book and passing it along.

Aug 15, 2007Brooke rated it really liked it

Whenever critics describe a book as 'ambitious,' I'm always wary. Ambitious is sometimes just another word for 'really, really long,' and a good portion of the really, really long books I've read could have done the job better in fewer pages. John Crowley's Little, Big is called 'the best fantasy written by an American' by one critic, but the A-word by another. Is it too long? Maybe just a bit, but the places where it dragged suffered from an unsympathetic character more than an unnecessary prol...more

Sep 19, 2012Nikki rated it it was ok

I’ve had Little, Big on my reading list for sooo long, and it definitely sounded like something I could love — a house bordering on the otherworld, rich writing, a whole tangle of family and connections to the otherworld that isn’t understood by all characters, and indeed is revealed slowly to the reader as well… For a while, I was captivated, definitely. Crowley’s writing is lovely, made me almost smell the rooms of the house, the dew-damp ground outside, etc, etc.
In the end, it reminded me a l...more

Oct 22, 2014Sarah rated it it was ok

Shelves: world-fantasy-award, sci-fi-fantasy-challenge-2016

Well, I survived... This is more like 2.5 stars but it was such an odd book that it was hard to actually decide. Sometimes 1, sometimes 2, sometimes 3 - but never 4 or 5.

May 18, 2010Judy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 20th-century-fiction, fantasy

This is the first book I read in 2010 and will possibly be my favorite book of the year. I used to read fantasy as a child, especially The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Story of the Amulet by E Nesbit. I also liked The Borrowers by Mary Norton. By about fifth grade I got into Nancy Drew and that was the end of fantasy for me.
Then in early 2000, I read the first Harry Potter book and re-discovered magic. The Lord of the Rings movies came in 2002 and I finally read the trilogy, liking it just fine...more

Jun 25, 2008Jude rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommended to Jude by: the cover. by Yvonne Gilbert

This is the cover - with the redhaired girl and the bubbles and the boy and the trout - of the book i picked up and put back and got to the door of the store with friends waiting and turned back and went back and bought.
And from then on the world was as it would not otherwise have been.
This is a tender and endless world of a story, a comfort and a wonder.
And i don't feel gooey about this, or wistful about everybody reading it.
It is not so much perfect as simply perfect for you or not at all.
When...more

I read the last 20 or so pages of this late at night, half-asleep which puts your mind in the same state as the characters (characters getting lost in the woods, forgetting who they are, talking to animals - more in line with the fuzzy dreaming brain). Everything in the book was leading up to those last few pages. The Tale! When will it end!? What will happen to justify all these whispered anticipations for it?
After seeing reviews of the book on here, I picked it up with great anticipation. Mag...more

Apr 20, 2019T.D. Whittle rated it it was amazing

This book is a slow enchantment. I enjoyed its characters, its pace, its settings, and the gentle way it moved through the narrative. Beautiful writing.

Apr 15, 2008Bart Everson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: fans of fantastic literature, but also (and especially) people who think they don't like fantasy

Shelves: re-read, aloud, octavia-sf

I first read this book when I was traveling. I picked it up in Helsinki in 2001 and continued reading it as I traveled through London and Scotland. Odd, considering it's an American fairy tale. Yes, that's right, it's a modern American fairy tale. Fairies always seem very Old World to me. I'm impressed — dazzled — that Crowley was able to pull this off so convincingly.
This story is so big and rambling that I won't even try to describe it. But I do have a few observations.
This is a serious adult...more

LB is lush, beautiful, and strange. It is one of those books, also, that sent me scurrying for other sources to help make sense of what I am reading. The language is poetic, but not dense. The characters are memorable, but like the book, a little removed and distant. I found myself reading this book from a distance, as opposed to feeling involved and part of the story. Which again is also apt, because the book is ultimately about a Tale and one lone family whose responsibility it is to spin it b...more

Jun 02, 2013Andreas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: awards, 2013, reviewed, fantasy, favorites, award-mythopoeic, award-wfa

After reading books where you get mutilations and murders after the first dozen pages, this is quite a different text. Which is refreshing, to say the least. It is so strange how this book is able to enthral me in complete absence of any kind of action. Few magic and faeries, as well, considering the length of the text.
But if you want to read one of the most lyric prose in fantasy literature with interesting characters in a weird setting, then go for this one. You don't want to read diagonally...more

This is one of those books I so wanted to love and adore; one of those surprise 'finds' that none of my current GR friends had read/reviewed. The reviews on this made me salivate - I was so excited...
I couldn't even get past page five.
I fail as a reader of magical realism.
Bummer.

A book about the mystery of faeries. I did not enjoy this book. I grudgingly give it three stars because the prose is nice and I believe it achieves what the author intends. It will really work for some people, but I think it will really not work for most people.

She had no reasons that she could name, and perhaps their reasons had no names that could be spoken either, though she seemed to hear--doubtless only the stream and the blood sounding in her ears--a lot of voices speaking nothing.

A love...more

Nov 01, 2009Jason Mills rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, nectar-of-the-gods

Five stars are not enough. This is an intricate, moving, funny, warm, wondrous, delicate filigree of a novel.
It's a family saga over the course of a century, set largely in a house and estate in upstate New York called Edgewood. This rambling home is indeed on the edge - it seems to intersect with the land of faery, though there is nothing twee about these fairy-folk. Characters drift uncertainly between one world and the other. Deals are made, enormous yet murky plans move forward.
Our principle...more

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