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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 Synopsis:"He creates tableaux of such beauty and clarity that the inner eye is stunned." - Publisher's Weekly Mark Helprin's magical masterpiece will transport you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows. One winter night, Peter Lake - master mechanic and master second-storey man - attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature. "This novel stretches the boundaries of contemporary literature. It is a gifted writer's love affair with the language." - Newsday "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? It is indeed . . . . I find myself nervous, to a degree I don't recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance." - Front Page, The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Bestseller Educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford, Mark Helprin served in the Israeli army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, Refiner's Fire, Ellis Island and Other Stories, Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Memoir from Antproof Case, The Pacific and Other Stories, and Freddy and Fredericka. About the AuthorMark 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. Table of ContentsI. THE CITY A White Horse Escapes 3 The Ferry Burns in Morning Cold 10 Pearly Soames 20 Peter Lake Hangs from a Star 40 Beverly 95 A Goddess in the Bath 110 On the Marsh 130 Lake of the Coheeries 143 The Hospital in Printing House Square 173 Aceldama 191 II. FOUR GATES TO THE CITY Four Gates to the City 219 Lake of the Coheeries 221 In the Drifts 264 A New Life 347 Hell Gate 370 III. THE SUN...AND THE GHOST Nothing Is Random 401 Peter Lake Returns 403 The Sun... 418 ...and The Ghost 438 An Early Summer Dinner at Petipas 445 The Machine Age 456 IV. A GOLDEN AGE A Very Short History of the Clouds 505 Battery Bridge 507 White Horse and Dark Horse 544 The White Dog of Afghanistan 579 Abysmillard Redux 591 Ex Machina 606 For the Soldiers and Sailors of Chelsea 641 The City Alight 666 A Golden Age 697 epilogue 747 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 4 comments:
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