Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling

Mark Helprin

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, 1977

0394412737 / 9780394412733

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Stated First Edition. 373pp. Helprin's debut novel. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "An immense novel, both serious and comic, filled with character, incident, and the sweep of history, REFINER'S FIRE is the story of Marshall Pearl, born in a sea battle on an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947. Sent to America by the ship's captain, he is adopted by the wealthy and childless Livingstons and grows up on their Hudson Valley estate--riding ice floes on the river, jumping freights, climbing cliffs. Yet he is shaped by the imperatives of his origins and destiny, by his peculiar sensitivity to light, and by his astonishing seizures and visions. Always restless and attracted by forces and affinities just beyond his grasp, he begins to move outward: as a child, to an idyllic summer in the Rockies; as an adolescent, to the tropical forests of Jamaica and the Rastafarian rebellion; as a young man, to the taxing traditions of Harvard, to the Great Plains, to Charleston, to the highest ridges of the Alps, and finally to Israel. We see him en route in feast and famine--in trouble, broke, hungry, on the bottom, or surrounded by riches, on top, and in command. And he is often in love: with the sunburnt (always perfect) Lydia, or the lithe, unattainable Dash, or gentle Alexa, or strong-willed Nancy May Baker . . . until one of them becomes central to his life." [jacket copy] "Every once in a while a book appears that engulfs you in its limitless beauty . . . This is such a book. Helprin's use of language and imagery is an ineffable joy."--The Philadelphia Inquirer. "As if The Odyssey had been updated and rewritten by Dylan Thomas."--The Listener, London. "Superb . . . A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned wondrous truths . . . That best of all possible novels: read ten pages and you can't put it down; finish it and you'll feel it haunt your days and nights."--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a NF intact jacket, all quite presentable.…

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Titre
Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling
Auteur
Mark Helprin
Éditeur
Alfred A. Knopf
Année de publication
1977
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Near Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0394412737
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780394412733
Édition
1st Edition

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