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 st ruggle 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