A Conway Miscellany

"John Crowley is one of the finest writers of our time." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust."—Peter Straub In these four wildly imaginative short books, award-winning author John Crowley employs a rattling button jar of styles to tell multifaceted stories: of a young artist’s adventures in 1960s New York, of family histories brought to light, of the beguiling mysteries of the dreaming mind. Featuring all the wonder, erudition, humor, and finely wrought prose for which Crowley is known, each volume stands on its own, yet all four are connected by thematic threads of love, loss, and chance, and of a life committed to literature and art. Taken together, they represent some of the author’s most intimate works to date. The books are printed in the US on 100% recycled paper. Their covers combine to reveal a painting by Jean Valette-Penot, Trompe-l'œil à la gr