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WINTERS TALE - MARK HELPRIN TASCHENBUCH

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. 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. His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary
stories of American literature. 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

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