'Winter''s Tale'
'Winter''s Tale' A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin's masterpiece transports 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-story man--attempt… Celý popis ↓
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'Winter''s Tale'
A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin's masterpiece transports 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-story man--attempts to rob a fortresslike mansion on the Upper West Side. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home.
His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature. It is a love so powerful that Peter, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. "Utterly extraordinary . . .
A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . . Not for some time
Parametre
- Výrobca
- HMH Books
- Autor
- Mark Helprin
- Počet strán
- 748
- Rok vydania
- 2005
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