DAEMONOMANIA: Book Three of the Aegypt Cycle (65 page)
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Authors: John Crowley
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“A prophecy of America entering the authentic new age: Magical, potentially destructive, and utterly uncanny. … A masterpiece.”
—H
AROLD
B
LOOM
In
Dæmonomania
—volume three of the acclaimed epic Ægypt cycle—the concerns of everyday life are beginning to transmute into the extraordinary
and to reveal the forces, dark and light, that truly govern our lives. So it is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian, who
has moved to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover a path into magic, past and present. It is the dark of the year,
between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great
cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and his girlfriend Rosie must take sides in an age-old war that is approaching its final
battle.
Dæmonomania
is a journey into the very mystery of existence: What is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in
our lives.
“As disturbing as it is compelling … A book to get utterly lost in. Like a magus, John Crowley shares his secrets generously,
allowing us to believe that his book is revealing the true and glorious nature of the world, and the reader’s own place within
it.”
—
The Village Voice
“A major new novel from an author whose writing is a dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique.”
—
The New York Times Book Review
“[Crowley] transforms the lead of daily life into seriously dazzling artistic gold.”
—
Newsday
J
OHN
C
ROWLEY
was born in the town of Presque Isle, Maine. He is the author of several novels, including
Little, Big
and
Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land. The Solitudes
and
Love & Sleep
(the first and second volumes of the Ægypt cycle) were enshrined in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon. Crowley teaches at Yale
University.
