Helpful Score: 2
It's difficult to praise "Little, Big" enough. Original, whimsical, written in a style that begs repeated readings in order to savor the prose style and wallow in the characterizations. Forget genre fantasy, Crowley belongs on the short list of high literary fabulists, along with masters like Mark Helprin, Salman Rushdie and Tom Robbins. "Little, Big" is intellectually and emotionally stunning, the kind of book that a chance encounter with 28 years ago when I was in college lodged itself in my mind and remained there till recently, when I picked it up again and found that it was, in fact as wonderfilled as I remembered. Not for fans of fantasy, but for anyone who loves good writing and touching, original stories.
