Format:
Book
Title:
Winter's Tale / Mark Helprin.
Author:
Helprin, Mark, author.
Call Number:
FIC HELPRIN M
Publisher, Date:
Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Description:
748 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
"One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like 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 Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead."-- Excerpt of summary from book.
Subjects:
Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Reincarnation -- Fiction.
Burglars -- Fiction.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
Romance fiction.
Contents:
I. The city. -- A white horse escapes -- The ferry burns in morning cold -- Pearly Soames -- Peter Lake hangs from a star -- Beverly -- A goddess in the bath -- On the marsh -- Lake of the Coheeries -- The hospital in Printing House Square -- Aceldama -- II. Four gates to the city. -- Four gates to the city -- Lake of the Coheeries -- In the drifts -- A new life -- Hell gate -- III. The Sun ... and The Ghost. -- Nothing is random -- Peter Lake returns -- The Sun ... -- ... and The Ghost -- An early summer dinner at Petipas -- The machine age -- IV. A golden age. -- A very short history of the clouds -- Battery bridge -- White horse and dark horse -- The white dog of Afghanistan -- Abysmillard redux -- Ex machina -- For the soldiers and sailors of Chelsea -- The city alight -- A golden age -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
0544320425
9780544320420
0156001942
9780156001946
9780156031196
0156031191
9780151972036
0151972036