By John Crowley
ISBN-10: 1931520224
ISBN-13: 9781931520225
This is the fourth novel—and much-anticipated conclusion—of John Crowley's unbelievable and lauded Ægypt series: a dense, lyrical meditation on background, alchemy, and memory.
Spanning 3 centuries, and weaving jointly the tales of Renaissance magician John Dee, thinker Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and author Pierce Moffitt, the Ægypt series is as richly major as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the track of Time. Crowley, a grasp prose stylist, explores modifications actual, magical, alchemical, and private during this epic, tremendously American novel the place the earlier, current, and destiny mirror one another.
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He looked back at the door but could only see a wall. ” Rosemont put his hand on the wall and ran it over the dusty surface but couldn’t find hinge, seam, or latch. Stepping back from where the door should have been, he scanned the wall up to the eaves. No windows. No balconies. Just a broad, flat, red-brick wall. ” Walking toward him, an old couple, the man holding a chaise longue, glared at him. “Is this . . ” He was about to ask if the Hostelry of the Tyros was nearby, but recalled the desk clerk’s conversation 34 Barth Anderson with the American couple.
Nearby, someone was lighting off bottle rockets. Rosemont scrutinized the wall again. He’d been waiting for some time to see if a traveler would arrive and open the secret door. But maybe it only opened out and the indifferent desk clerk had simply let him walk out without warning him. He hoped he could walk around to the front and pass through the kitchen of angry ladies and the dormitory to find the hostel again. He figured he should do that soon, but now he could smell meat grilling somewhere down the block and his stomach led him away from the 54 Barth Anderson wall.
Or backpackers of any kind. ” The two were clearly disappointed to the point of anger, and the girl in particular didn’t want to give up. “We know something’s going on here. We know this is—” 28 Barth Anderson “Yes, I’m about to shoot the moon and you’re messing me up,” said the desk clerk, rolling up her sweater’s sleeves. She leaned to her left and suddenly made eye contact with Rosemont around the boy’s hip. “Come. Come. ” The Americans looked over their shoulders at him. Then with a reluctant sidestep, the boy made room for Rosemont at the desk, giving him a baffled head to toe.
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