Mark Helprin
Paperback | Pages: 748 pages Rating: 3.5 | 25809 Users | 4106 Reviews
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| 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 |
Relation Supposing Books Winter's Tale
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.
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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) |
Rating Containing Books Winter's Tale
Ratings: 3.5 From 25809 Users | 4106 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Winter's Tale
So what if Helprin's political views make me want to spew in the nearest barf receptacle? He created Peter Lake, and I don't care about much else. This is an intense example of magical realism. At times, the reader must willingly suspend his or her disbelief until the very notion of disbelief is shot straight to hell. Still, it is about the journey Helprin takes us on--not the destination we anticipate at the beginning of the story. Meet Peter Lake: a middle aged, exceedingly clever burglar whoI 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
Flowery and ultimately meaninglessThere are many beautifully descriptive passages, mostly of the wind & snow; the best are those concerning the magical horse Althansor. Unfortunately, there are many of them, and I found my heart beginning to sink whenever another chapter began with another beautifully descriptive passage about the wind & snow.I never did discover a plot. The human characters came and went without any real impact, either on the story or on me, although the magical horse
I feel like it took twelvty hundred years to get through this book. I snowplowed (reference intentional) my way through it, refusing to let its length and byzantine density conquer me, which is most likely why I'm disappointed and annoyed. And tired.To be fair, when Helprin isn't waxing lyrical about 1) snow 2) justice 3) urban planning, the plot chugs along, the fantasy is enchanting, the jokes are funny, and the characters are delightfully anachronistic -- and not just the ones who are quite
The last thing Mrs. Gamely said to her daughter was, Remember, what we are trying to do in this life is to shatter time and bring back the dead. Winters Tale is a BIG book. I refer not only to its 748-page length, but to its ambition. It is a big book about big ideas, and it takes some big characters to realize the authors ambition. There are a few here. Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, the rock on which Mark Helprin builds much of his story, shares his genesis with the likes of Moses and Kal-El,
"There was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently and was not deep and the sky was swept with vibrant stars, except in the east, where dawn was beginning in a light blue flood."Every once in a while a book comes along that absolutely changes your life. As readers, I feel like we live for moments like that. I know at least I do. That perfect moment of clarity when a book reaches in and grabs your heart and soul and somehow becomes a part of you. And from
My dad gave me a copy of this book for Christmas one year, and it sat on my shelf for a while until one day I had nothing to read. I haven't finished reading it yet, even though I've made it from the front cover to the back cover at least four times now. I tell anyone who will listen that they should read this book, if just this one, once.Helprin's style of writing is like the ocean, deep and dark, quietly ebbing and flowing, eroding the edges of continents, but also confident and strong,
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