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by John Crowley (Author)
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John Crowley's powerfully mysterious Dæmonomania adds flesh to the world he imagined in Ægypt and Love and Sleep. In this book, as in all his books, Crowley transports faithful readers to a place where time, place, and meaning come unstuck. It is in some ways the story of the end of the world as it might be, or might have been, a novel of history, eschatology, and faith with unforgettable characters and hauntingly lovely sentences. If the world's end is neither bang nor whimper but "like the shivers that pass over a horse's skin," how is it perceived by the people living through it?

Historian Pierce Moffett finds his key to understanding in New York state's Faraway Hills, as do his lover, Rose Ryder, and single mom Rosie Rasmussen, whose daughter seems to suffer from dæmonomania--spiritual possession by Renaissance magician John Dee. Each character must pick a careful path between the colliding juggernauts of past and present, magic and mundane. The wind of apocalypse is blowing:

"Scary wind.... What if it's the one?" she said.

"What one?" he said.... He in fact knew what one, for it was from him that she had heard mythologies of wind, how it bloweth where it listeth, one part of Nature not under God's thumb and therefore perhaps at the disposal of our Enemy; she had heard his stories about changer winds, how one had once blown away the Spanish Armada and thus saved England from Catholic conquest, a famous wind which if you went to look for it in the records of the time wasn't there.

In typical Crowley style, magic is seamlessly woven into the narrative. Pierce is writing the story of the end of the world while it happens, Rose joins a cult that promises salvation, and Rosie inherits a spooky legacy that might hold the secret to saving her daughter. All are involved in deep exchanges of power, and all must yield to what Crowley calls the "queasy pressure of Fate."

Crowley describes Dæmonomania best when he writes about Pierce's book: "The book... was about magic, secret histories, and the End of the World, an event that Pierce would suggest was under way undetectably even as he wrote, as the reader read." This is a complex, disturbing, and beautiful book, one that will bear rereading. Crowley's writing is gorgeous in places, frustrating in others, but always irresistible. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Combining brilliant storytelling with mind-catching philosophical musings, Crowley's (Little, Big) latest novel pushes fantasy fiction toward its most thrilling, intelligent heights. Set in a time and place that are both invented and naggingly familiar, this tale tells of a collection of average people who begin to think their world's out of whack. From the small (misplaced keys that somehow turn up), to the mid-sized (a child who claims with chilling plausibility to have lived previously) and the large (the way causes seem to be following effects, not vice versa), things are just getting weird. At the outset, Pierce Moffett, 35, a failed history professor, has departed New York for LittlevilleDwhere he's living on a book advance, writing the manuscript of a speculative history. Meanwhile, he's casually falling in love with Rose Ryder, a 28-year-old who's having an early midlife crisis. Right there the plot gets skillfully complicated. Ryder, who's also sleeping with one Mike Mucho, gets entangled with a cult of coercive Christian "healers" led by Ray Honeybeare. Mucho, who's also a Honeybeare follower, is trying to wrest his young, epileptic daughter from his estranged wife, Rosie Rasmussen. And Rasmussen is planning a Halloween party that might bring about Honeybeare's doomsday plans. Crowley intersperses this set of stories with accounts of 17th-century heretics, like the Dominican monk Bruno, a wandering philosopher who believed each man's view of the world was relative to his positionDwhich is the philosophy structuring Crowley's layered narrative, making it uncommonly reflective. Bruno's "Picatrix" manuscript, supposedly discovered by Moffett while writing his book, loosely ties Crowley's various story lines together as Rasmussen tries to save her daughter from Honeybeare, and Ryder runs off to find herself. Told in absorbing if occasionally dense, even difficult, prose, this novel is a satisfyingly long, intricate and unusually meditative offering from one of the field's finest. (Aug.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Autumn's Tale, Feb 5 2002
By schapmock (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daemonomania (Paperback)
Daemonomania, third installment in the eventual quartet begun in Aegypt and continued in Love and Sleep, covers the autumn of the numinous 1979 John Crowley has been so carefully chronicling since 1985 or so. It's nearly Halloween in Faraway Hills, and we pick up with Pierce Moffat & company, John Dee & Giordano Bruno included, right where we left them.

Daemonomania is very much of a piece with its equally allusive and mysterious predecessors. It certainly contains all the strengths and weaknesses of the previous books -- if you loved them, you will love this; if you exited Love & Sleep angry about the lack of narrative progress, well, matters have not greatly improved.

But these books are almost a genre to themselves; dense, mythic, intricately detailed and stunningly beautiful, steeped in occult learning and emotional wisdom. Proceeding synchronistically rather than literally to make emotional sense of magic (in every sense of the word), they seem me among the most ambitious and rewarding novels of the past two decades.

Reviews below draw comparisons to Eco's Foucalt's Pendulum, but I think the more apt parallel is to a novel I often think my favorite -- Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale. Like Winter's Tale, Crowley's opus defiantly rejects a reasonable "what just happened?/where is this going?" query at every turn, yet renders the question moot with gorgeous, transcendent writing and abundant good humor. Though Crowley's tone is as adult and intellectual as Helprin's is child-like and matter of fact, the books share an exceedingly rare literary magic.

Don't worry so much about the plot -- just read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Where's the fourth book?, Oct 20 2001
By F DE WIT "framwit" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daemonomania (Hardcover)
I loved the Aegypt series. Does anybody know if the book called "The Translator," available in March of 2002,is the fourth book in the series? Is it by the same John Crowley?
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3.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment after a long, long wait, Jun 2 2001
By George Krompacky (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daemonomania (Hardcover)
Years ago I learned of Little, Big after reading a column in Twilight Zone magazine; I've never had a better reading experience since. I sought after all of Crowley's previous works and watched for new ones. Crowley is too good and too intelligent to ever try and repeat the incredible milestone that Little, Big represents, and I've haven't allowed myself to be disappointed by that. Aegypt and Love and Sleep promised a lot to come and I constantly searched for news of the next book in the series. But I would have to agree with one reviewer who essentially said that Crowley is a little too clever in Daemonomania. The book is incredibly dense, which doesn't imply anything negative, but I feel its density undermines some of the great reading satisfaction that plot can bring. I read half the book and put it down for several months, then returned and reread it front to back. I felt as though Crowley was constantly teasing me with the promise that something might happen, only to jerk away the lure right when I got close. It was so unsatisfying.I've rated Daemonomania 3 stars, but the work on this book is 5 star compared to 3/4 of the books being published today. However, compared to his other books, this one misses the mark. I don't see what is left for the final volume.
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3.0 out of 5 stars It's no "Little, Big"
"Little, Big" being on my list of the 5 greatest sci-fi books of all time, and having waited patiently lo these many years for another masterwork by John Crowley,... Read more
Published on Mar 9 2001 by Scott Hardman

4.0 out of 5 stars Erudite, Stylish, Literary Fantasy, But...
Having read the comments of several earlier reviewers it is now obvious that much of the problems I encountered reading this novel stem from the fact that it is not meant as a... Read more
Published on Feb 11 2001 by Elyon

5.0 out of 5 stars Stylistic, philosophic, entertaining, highly recommended.
John Crowley's newest book, Daemonomania is the third of a projected four-book cycle, the first two of which, Aegypt and Love and Sleep, aroused critical attention in their own... Read more
Published on Nov 22 2000 by Midwest Book Review

4.0 out of 5 stars a delightful, dense and brilliant third part
Daemonomania is the third of (presumably, hopefully) four novels, each containing a section dealing in some way with three astrological houses. Read more
Published on Oct 18 2000 by rash67

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and enlightening
Daemonomania is a truly remarkable work. Although Mr. Crowley never surpasses the limits of the credible, he manages to present many instances of the uncanny in... Read more
Published on Oct 5 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Reviewers... bah!
Of all the reviews I've read in the papers, only Elizabeth Hand seemed to "get" this book. Most of the rest seemed as if they had barely read it. Read more
Published on Sep 29 2000 by scot williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Another neglected Crowley masterwork
The fact that Crowley's latest book has had zero impact on the general culture is a shame. In my local store there are two copies of the book for sale, both anonymously shelved... Read more
Published on Aug 31 2000 by pango

4.0 out of 5 stars Zeno's Paradox
I waited 7 years for this book. This wait heightened expectation. Like his other 2 books of of Aegypt series it is incredibly well written and a pleasure to read. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Crowley and the Search for Meaning
With "Daemonomania" John Crowley continues his ornate and multi-levelled search for Meaning in a world of shifting and competing narratives. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful addition to AEgypt series
Daemonomania was worth the wait. I have enough faith in Crowley's craftmanship to believe that the multiple threads initiated in Aegypt and sustained through Love and Sleep and... Read more
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