Description
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
Author: Mark Helprin
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 768
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 2.00d
ISBN13: 9780156031196
ISBN10: 0156031191
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | 20th Century
- Fiction | Magical Realism