Reviews
"A masterpiece of spiritual insight and of superb style and characterization." -- Harold Bloom Praise for John Crowley: "Crowley writes with style and wit, creates characters that live and breathe." --Newsday "Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust." -- Peter Straub "An original moralist of the same giddy heights occupied by the likes of Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies." --San Francisco Chronicle "John Crowley, I predict, will emerge as American Lit's next Cormac McCarthy -- so catch him now and beat the crowds." --Spin "John Crowley is an abundantly gifted writer, a scholar whose passion for history is matched by his ability to write a graceful sentence." --The New York Times Book Review "Crowley is one of those necessary writers for whom one has been waiting without knowing it." -- Russell Hoban, "A masterpiece of spiritual insight and of superb style and characterization." -- Harold Bloom Praise for John Crowley: "Crowley writes with style and wit, creates characters that live and breathe." -- Newsday "Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust." -- Peter Straub "An original moralist of the same giddy heights occupied by the likes of Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies." -- San Francisco Chronicle "John Crowley, I predict, will emerge as American Lit's next Cormac McCarthy -- so catch him now and beat the crowds." -- Spin "John Crowley is an abundantly gifted writer, a scholar whose passion for history is matched by his ability to write a graceful sentence." -- The New York Times Book Review "Crowley is one of those necessary writers for whom one has been waiting without knowing it." -- Russell Hoban
