Format:
Eaudiobook, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along, Electronic Resources
Title:
Winter's tale [electronic resource] / Mark Helprin.
Author:
Helprin, Mark.
Call Number:
Audio eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Publisher, Date:
North Kingstown : Sound Library, 2008.
Summary:
This is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice, and yet you can lose yourself in it as if it were a dream. You will be transported to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented winters. One night, Peter Lake--orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven "to stop time and bring back the dead." His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beset by winter, is a truly beautiful and extraordinary story.
Subjects:
Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Reincarnation -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Burglars -- Fiction.
Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Reincarnation -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Thieves -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Love stories.
Audiobooks.
Other Author:
Wyman, Oliver.
Sound Library.
ISBN:
9780792753735 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
0792753739 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)