Winter's Tale Pa

Helprin, Mark

ISBN 10 : 0156031191 ISBN 13 : 9780156031196

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

Winter's Tale A breathtaking novel by the author of "A Soldier of the Great War," this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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New York Times bestseller

"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 . . . 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 DeMott, New York Times Book Review

Mark Helprin’s 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 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 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.

"He creates tableaux of such beauty and clarity that the inner eye is stunned." – Publishers Weekly

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

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0156031191
• ISBN 13: 9780156031196
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 768