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| Original Title: | Winter's Tale |
| ISBN: | 0156031191 (ISBN13: 9780156031196) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Peter Lake, Beverly Penn, Mootfowl, Issac Penn, Willa Penn, Harry Penn, Jayga, Pearly Soames |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
Mark Helprin
Paperback | Pages: 748 pages Rating: 3.5 | 25809 Users | 4106 Reviews
List Appertaining To Books Winter's Tale
| Title | : | Winter's Tale |
| Author | : | Mark Helprin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 748 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2005 by Mariner Books (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Magical Realism. Romance |
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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 the 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 besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.
Rating Appertaining To Books Winter's Tale
Ratings: 3.5 From 25809 Users | 4106 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Winter's Tale
Wow. This is the worst magical realism book I've ever read, and I've read Salman Rushdie's Fury. Bottom line is that I don't mind crap, but I do mind deadly dull crap. Everything happens without much point, even within the universe of the book. Why would a super idealistic newspaper run a column entitled The Mayor Looks Like an Egg. Period.? Why is it that the one horrid person in the universe is a complete buffoon? What was the point of the horse other than a deus ex machina? Why did the little
One of my all-time favorite songs is "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel. From the warm A and E chords and heartbeat drum of the opening motif to the soaring bridge and the bass that feels as if it's part of your bloodstream, it's a song I want to crawl inside. It fills me with sense of wonder and joy and an aching~ longing~hunger~sadness~bliss that we don't have a word for in English, but they do in Portuguese: saudade; and in Welsh hiraeth. I want to write an entire book about this emotion. But
I couldn't finish this. I know a lot of people loved it, but it just wasn't for me. I thought it was a turgid mess of cutesiness and magical realism, and I was rolling my eyes so much I finally had to stop. Maybe you will like it more.
Winter's Tale sat on my shelves for about two years before I started it, taking up far more shelf space than any book has a right to unless it deals with subject matter like the wealth of nations or anatomy, but this book is huge because New York City is squeezed between the covers.It's a profound book, steeped in love and human emotion, and yet whimsical in a lot of ways.Hurrah for contradictory introductions to reviews!Winter's Tale initially flirts with introducing philosophy, like an adult
I DID IT!I survived this book!I am the STRONGEST!RAAAAAAAAAR! That's me after finishing this story.Soooo...I hated it.I totally read this in the wrong age (both in terms of my physical age and in terms of the century in which I am currently living) - I should have read this when I was in my young 20's, still idealistic and full of wonder, before the world changed over to the new millennium and 9/11.I think had I read this back then, I'd have been enchanted.In fact, I was enchanted through
Winter's Tale held the promise of being a book that I would have loved: a fantastical novel set in a New York City of the Belle Epoque but in some alternate universe with perpetual winters, with a large cast of characters and a love story at its core. I really looked forward to reading it, and was actually excited at the prospect of immersing myself into the world that Mark Helprin created, and losing hours for the story that he told, reading deep into the night. This year the novel was finally
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