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AEgypt [Secure]
eBook by John Crowley
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eBook Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction World Fantasy Award Nominee
eBook Description:  There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments, not Egypt--but Ægypt. What if it were really so? In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Ægypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe--that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it, a key, perhaps, to Ægypt. [A New York Times Notable Book of 1987]
eBook Publisher: Electricstory.com, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2002
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Mobipocket Reader ISBN: 1930815433
eReader ISBN: 9781597290142
 
"Affecting, cerebral, surprising, and delightful, this extraordinary philosophical romance suggests an unlikely but thriving marriage between a writer like Anne Tyler and one such as Jorge Luis Borges."--Publishers Weekly
"The writing here is intricate and thoughtful, allusive and ironic. The novel's message has genuine weight and appeal. Ægypt bears many resemblances, incidental and substantive, to Thomas Pynchon's wonderful 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49."--USA Today "Ægypt is a must; it is a land of questions, more questions and mysteries, because crafting mysteries is what John Crowley, an original moralist of the same giddy heights occupied by Thomas Mann and Robertson Davies, does best.--San Francisco Chronicle "Extraordinary storytelling."--Los Angeles Times "A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique.... The narrative startles the reader again and again with the eloquent rightness of the web of coincidences that structure it."--New York Times Book Review
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