- Contemporary Fantasy, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Fiction, romance, fantasy
Winner of the 1982 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
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Contemporary, contemplative, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- John Crowley, John Crowley
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 538
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Doubleday Book & Music Clubs
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553233377
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First sentence
“On a certain day in June, 19–, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great city to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of, but never visited.”
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