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Name: Aegypt
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: John Crowley

Pierce Moffett, a former history teacher, watches the 1960s parade pass by and questions whether a hidden narrative threads through time. After losing his job, he inadvertently steps into the Faraway Hills, where the past’s stories seem to come alive. Rosie Rasmussen, grappling with divorce, returns to the Faraways and immerses herself in Fellowes Kraft’s historical romances— tales of angels, Elizabethan magicians, and Shakespeare’s youth. These stories echo the larger, unseen plot that both Pierce and Rosie are beginning to uncover. Together they confront whether our lives are preordained by a deeper plot, and how the myths encoded in history shape our personal destinies.

First publish date: 1987

Genre: Speculative Fiction/Alternate History

Authors: John Crowley

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