A review by eupomene
Aegypt, by John Crowley

5.0

I remember this being lovely bus reading on all those Choral Union trips to Detroit back when I was in that group. Delightfully, magically written. I really have no clue what it was about! Many stories within a story -- it was one of those books where everything comes together, just like in life generally, and shows me how all the books I read are somehow linked. Near the end, the main male character wonders why he has to live two lives -- the life outside (to me, the life of the world) and the one inside (all the lives we live through books, whatever we make up, all our imaginings). I never wondered why. This is just the way it is, and books are a magical, helpful, and learning part of it. This was a book about stories, our need for them, the many types, and how they run together and link up. The book tells of that and while reading it, I saw the truth of it in my own life. I felt as if I were in a Sandman graphic novel, reading this.