First edition of Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin, a fantastic story of New York City in the early 20th C.
Written by Mark Helprin. Stated first edition, first printing, 1983. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
Mark Helprin (1947- ) is the author of Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling; A Soldier of the Great War; In Sunlight and In Shadow; Ellis and Other Stories, and other novels, novellas, and short stories.
Winter's Tale is one of the most acclaimed novels of the past 50 years. David Barnett wrote for The Guardian, 12/13/2010:
"I was blown away by Winter's Tale. It was set in New York, but no New York that I'd ever imagined, even in the most way-out Marvel comic adventure. It was a fantasy novel, but without elves or dragons, and set in a place I vaguely recognized. I hadn't heard the term "magical realism" back then; nor had I read much 19th-century literature – so I didn't recognize the archetypes of the beautiful yet consumptive girl who sits, swaddled in blankets, on the roof of her house dreaming of the world and her collision with Peter Lake, a petty crook who lives in the rafters of a fantastical Grand Central Station and who tries to burgle her remote house.
"Helprin's portrait of a snow-bound New York from a 1900s that we just about recognize is peopled with Dickensian grotesques and fancies; gangs who battle in the streets, a race to build a bridge all the way to infinity, hidden communities surviving in corners of New York that never were, fantastical families in tumbledown houses at the centre of frozen lakes. There are vast newspapers, almost living things, in intense rivalry with each other, and a magical, Aslan-like horse that can leap across this icy vision of Manhattan."
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Condition*: Near Fine/Acceptable. Dust jacket: Large open tear, bottom right corner; chipped at head and tale of spine; closed tears front and back, with two taped closed; closed tears at top corners; remnant of label covering barcode. Name inscribed in top right corner of front endpaper.
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