Winters Tale

Name: Winters Tale
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ISBN: 9780156031196

Mark Helprin

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Harcourt Brace
01 June 2005

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy; Parallel Worlds; Urban Fantasy; Magic

A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin's masterpiece of magical realism transports you to New York of the Belle Époque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows, and to an epic love story that is one of the most beautiful and unforgettable in American literature.

One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortresslike 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 dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter, a simple and uneducated man caught in a battle of good vs. evil, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead.

""Utterly extraordinary . . . A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . . Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled.""-- New York Times Book Review

By: Mark Helprin
Imprint: Harcourt Brace
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 51mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780156031196
ISBN 10: 0156031191
Pages: 748
Publication Date: 01 June 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Winters Tale

""Utterly extraordinary . . . A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . . Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled."" - New York Times Book Review ""This novel stretches the boundaries of contemporary literature. It is a gifted writer's love affair with the language."" - Newsday ""A prodigious, imaginative vibration of a novel."" - D.T. Max, New York Times ""A book of wonders."" - Vanity Fair