Product Description
This is the fourth novel- the much anticipated conclusion-in John Crowley's astonishing and lauded Ægypt cycle: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffitt, the Ægypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other.
About the Author
JOHN CROWLEY was born in Presque Isle, Maine. He is the author of numerous novels, including Little, Big and Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land. The first two volumes of the Ægypt cycle-The Solitudes and Love & Sleep-were enshrined in Harold Bloom's Western Canon.
