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Love and language create a epic and minutely powerful world - at once achingly familiar, utterly real, and inspiring in its fantastic insistence of magic.
I love this book. I re-read it once a year (whether I need it or not) and inflict dramatic readings of choice scenes on the people by whom I most want to be understood. Winter's Tale is food for both the intellect and the sentimental heart.
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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
rainbow.colder, November 25, 2008
Love and language create a epic and minutely powerful world - at once achingly familiar, utterly real, and inspiring in its fantastic insistence of magic.I love this book. I re-read it once a year (whether I need it or not) and inflict dramatic readings of choice scenes on the people by whom I most want to be understood. Winter's Tale is food for both the intellect and the sentimental heart.
(4 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)