Winter's Tale

Mark Helprin

Sep 1983 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin’s masterpiece transports you to New York of the Belle Époque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows, and to a love story that is one of the most beautiful and unforgettable in American literature.

One winter night, Peter Lake—master mechanic and second-story man—attempts to rob a fortresslike 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, 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 have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled."— New York Times Book Review

Ratings and reviews

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This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is filled with poetry, in the costume of prose. Romance and longing, passion and heartbreak, true life. It has scenes and characters that will stay with you forever. Characters interweave, storylines bomb up against one another. If you haven't read this book, you are cheating yourself.

Echos of classics yet in a class all by itself, I will be reading more from this author... This was my first Google play book purchase because I read the free sample and didn't want to put it down!

About the author

Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, The Oceans and the Stars, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.