Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction

John Crowley. Harper Perennial, $14.99 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-380-73106-0

Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction gathers 15 shorter works by one of America's most original writers of the fantastic, John Crowley (Little, Big). Included is a novella, ""An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings,"" hitherto available only in chapbook form.

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