John Crowley's masterfulLittle, Bigis the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.**Review''A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.'' --Ursula K. Le Guin''Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.'' --Peter Straub, award-winning horror fiction author''Ambitious, dazzling, strangely moving, a marvelous magic-realist family chronicle.'' --Washington Post''John Crowley writes sentences of such coruscating magnificence that the rest of the English language has fallen in love with them. I once knew an adverbial clause who was so infatuated with the linguistic beauty ofLittle, Bigthat the poor creature pined away into a comma.'' --James Morrow, World Fantasy Award-winning author