Winter's Tale - Couverture rigide

Helprin, Mark

 
9780151972036: Winter's Tale

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).

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Revue de presse

"Breathtaking. . . . Helprin is splendid, a major talent . . funnier and shrewder than Thomas Wolfe and much more accurate in his poetic exuberance." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"This novel stretches the boundaries of contemporary literature. It is a gifted writer's love affair with the language." -- Newsday

"Helprin is more than a major writer; he has all the makings of a great one." -- USA Today

"He has simply galvanized the universe." -- The Boston Globe

"Imaginatively engaging as well as entertaining, and it will find an eager audience." -- Library Journal

"Is it not so astonishing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled with narrative high jinks and comic flights, stands forth centrally as 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." -- Benjamin De Mott, The New York Times Book Review

Présentation de l'éditeur

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).

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