Otherwise (64 page)

And do I each time learn this? And then forget? As though I were Mother Tom in her box, like the strip of paper looped by St. Gene?

Yes.

Then free me now, angel. Let me sleep, if I can’t die. Free me, quickly, while I can still bear all this.…

Yes. Sleep now, brave man; sleep again, Rush; close your eyes, close your eyes. Forget.

Only… wait, wait. Listen: the one who I am, you must be gentle with him, angel, when he returns, remember. Here, take my hand, take his hand. Yes. Don’t let go. Promise.

Yes. I promise.

Stay with him.

Ever after. I promise. Now close your eyes.

WILLIAM MORROW    
Perennial

New in Hardcover March 2002 from John Crowley:

T
HE
T
RANSLATOR

ISBN 0-380-97862-8 (hardcover)

In 1962, at a large college in the Midwest, Kit Malone, a young woman with a troubled past, finds herself in a class taught by an exiled Russian poet, Innokenti Falin. Over the course of the summer the two forge a friendship, she becomes his translator, and a delicate love grows between these two displaced people. Years later, returning from a convention on Falin in Moscow, Kit realizes what really happened the last night that she spent with Falin… while the country held it’s breath against the threat of war, she was helping him make a decision that would change the course of history.

Now Available in Trade Paperback:

L
ITTLE
, B
IG

ISBN 0-06-093793-9 (paperback)

The epic story of Smoky Barnable—an anonymous young man whose life takes a magical turn the day he meets and falls in love with a unique woman named Daily Alice Drinkwater. Daily Alice lives in Edgewood, a mysterious place that cannot be found on a map, but where Smoky must travel in order to take her as his bride. In this palatial manor lives a family with ties to other worlds; as their history is revealed to Smoky, he discovers that he, too, is a part of a much larger tale unfolding all around.

“Prose that Scott Fitzgerald would envy and a heartbreaking love story.”

—Michael Dirda,
Washington Post Book Review

OTHERWISE

Three Novels by John Crowley

ISBN 0-06-093792-0 (paperback)

Now back in print, this volume contains three of award-winning author John Crowley’s critically acclaimed short novels:
Beasts, Engine Summer,
and
The Deep.

Available wherever books are sold, or call 1-800-331-3761 to order
.

About the Author

JOHN CROWLEY
was born in 1942 on an Army Air Corps base and grew up in Vermont and Indiana. A recipient of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, Mr. Crowley’s novels include
Ægypt, Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania,
and, most recently,
The Translator.
He teaches fiction and film writing at Yale, and lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and twin daughters.

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Praise for

THE WORK OF JOHN CROWLEY

The Deep

“Extraordinary…. It has genuine beauty.”  —Ursula K. Le Guin

“An honest and sensitively written fantasy.”   —
Chicago Daily News

“Crowley writes with style and wit, creates characters that live and breathe.”   —
New York Newsday

Engine Summer

“A strikingly original and involving book…with uncommon sensitivity and grace.”    —
Washington Post Book World

“Engine Summer
has strong, believable characters, an ingenious, well-made plot, and a resolution that is intellectually and dramatically satisfying.”      —
New York Times Book Review

“Reminiscent of Tolkien’s and Bradbury’s gentle mysticism…. This is the sort of book people take to their hearts, reread and recommend.”   —
Publishers Weekly

Beasts

“This haunting, thought-provoking novel…is extraordinarily touching, mingling a sense of hope with a pervasive mood of despair.”     —
Booklist

“Crowley has enough genuine imagination for ten ordinary writers.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

“Unforgettable.    —
Penthouse

Other Books by John Crowley

Also by John Crowley

The Translator

Dæmonomania

Love & Sleep

Ægypt

Little, Big

Copyright

THE DEEP
. Copyright © 1975 by John Crowley.
BEASTS
. Copyright © 1976 by John Crowley.
ENGINE SUMMER
. Copyright © 1979 by John Crowley.

A previous edition of this book was published in 1994 by Bantam Books under the title
Three Novels by John Crowley.
It is here reprinted by arrangement with Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

OTHERWISE
. Copyright © 1994 by John Crowley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © May 1994 ISBN: 978-0-06-196602-6

First Perennial edition published 2002.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Crowley, John.
Otherwise: three novels / by John Crowley.
p. cm.
Contents: The deep—Beasts—Engine summer.
ISBN 0-06-093792-0
1. Fantasy fiction, American. I. Title.
PS3553.R597A62002
813′.54—dc21   2001055477

04 05 06 RRD10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

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