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Winter's Tale

by Mark Helprin

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New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake — orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.

Though he thinks hte house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.

Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.

Review:

"[I]maginatively engaging as well as entertaining." Library Journal

Review:

"A gifted writer's love affair with the language." Newsday

About the Author

Mark Helprin has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, among many other publications. His collection The Pacific and Other Stories was published in the fall of 2004. He lives in Virginia.

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rainbow.colder, November 25, 2008 (view all comments by rainbow.colder)
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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dutchessabroad, September 14, 2008 (view all comments by dutchessabroad)
21 years ago I found a "well read" copy of Winter's Tale in a guesthouse in Deya on the isle of Mallorca. Never heard of the author before, and I thought I was past wanting to read "fantasy". Yet this (to me) unknown writer drew me into a world so imaginative, so enthralling, and so utterly believable, that I couldn't put it down, and then didn't want it to end.
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sarah hamilton, September 6, 2008 (view all comments by sarah hamilton)
i came across this book by chance and was overwhelmed by the stunning, magical beauty of helprin's writing. this story is timeless and i was terribly surprised to learn (over halfway through the book) that it's set in modern times. this is a gorgeous, stunning, deeply felt novel i would recommend to anyone...
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156031196
Author:
Helprin, Mark
Publisher:
Harvest Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Supernatural
Subject:
Reincarnation
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Publication Date:
June 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
748
Dimensions:
8.04x5.34x1.27 in. 1.52 lbs.

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