Love Sleep

by John Crowley

  Crowley, like the great magicians he writes of, dares to speculate on the alchemies that have power to transform ordinary life. Widely hailed and immensely talented, he is truly one of the most important writers working today. Finally reissued, and rewritten to be the novel Crowley always intended, Love & Sleep is a modern masterpiece, both extraordinary and literary.

  “A profound story about childhood mystery, parenthood, love, death, and the unexpected tricks and traps history uses to transform us. John Crowley, I predict, will emerge as American Lit’s next Cormac McCarthy.”

  —Spin

  “Hypnotic … startling and vivid.”—Chicago Tribune

  “Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has lefteverybody else in the dust.”—Peter Straub

  JOHN CROWLEY received an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He is the author of novels including the cult favorite Little, Big and, most recently, Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land. He teaches creative writing at Yale University.