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Winter's Tale (Harvest Book)by Mark Helprin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice, and yet you can lose yourself in it as if it were a dream. You will be transported to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented winters.
One night, Peter Lake — orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-storey man — attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven "to stop time and bring back the dead." His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beset by winter, is a truly beautiful and extraordinary story. A best-seller in both its hardcover and paperback editions, Winter's Tale "stretches the boundary of contemporary literature. It is a gifted writer's love affair with the language" (Newsday). Review:"One of our most talented writers....Helprin creates tableaux of such beauty and clarity that the inner eye is stunned." Publishers Weekly Review:"Breathtaking....Helprin is a splendid major talent...funnier and shrewder than Thomas Wolfe and much more accurate in his poetic exuberance." Los Angeles Times Review:"Is it not astonishing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled with narrative high jinks and comic flights, stands forth centrally as a moral discourse?...I find myself nervous...about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance." New York Times Book Review Review:"Helprin [has a] dauntless virtuosity with language....[There is] unquestionable genius in [this] book...one cannot fail to be transfixed by the utter exuberance of Helprin's imagination." Saturday Review Review:"A dazzling modern fairytale by a storyteller of seemingly effortless and artless grace." Joyce Carol Oates Review:"A wild, abundant, generous book...part mad invention, and...worth the trip." Anne Tyler Synopsis:A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. This novel is "a gifted writer's love affair with the language" (Newsday). About the AuthorMark Helprin is also the author of A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Ellis Island and Other Stories, A Soldier of the Great War, and Memoir from Antproof Case. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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