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Winter's Tale
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
by Mark Helprin


 
First Edition. Signed.
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New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich (1983)

First Edition. Signed.

Very good plus in dust jacket with rubbing. Book is free of previous owner marks and Mark Helprin has signed on the title page. Overall, a very lovely copy of a scarce signed first edition. Image shows the actual book with mylar (and a little glare from mylar at top).

"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.

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