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Title: Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin ISBN: 0-15-600194-2 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (149 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best novel written in English
Comment: I purchased Winter's Tale in a train-station in Germany and became so engrossed that I missed my stop. Once I got back home (reading all the while), I stayed up all night and finished it. After sleeping, I began it again the next day. It is interesting to me that a number of people have labeled it elitist. Many of the characters start out comparatively poor (though not uneducated) and rise to their destinies. Whether it's Virginia who leaves home to keep her family alive or Hardesty who rejects his family's wealth or Christiana who is a waitress taken by a rich man to live the high life (which she rejects to live in a one room apartment), these are characters from all ends of the economic spectrum. Friends that I have given this book have thanked me. From the first page there are sacrifices, yet each leads to a betterment of some sort. Balance is important as a theme and the city that will be built at the end will include Pearly Soames a truly frightening man. Please read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Enchanting, memorable, one of my favorites
Comment: It's been several years since I've read this book, but now that winter is setting in, I'm looking forward to sitting down with it again. I love this book. Helprin's use of the English language is almost overwhelming. His prose is so amazing, so intense, and so unlike any other that I've read. However, Winter's Tale is not a fast read, even if you consider yourself a fast reader. Case in point; I read the last Harry Potter book in two long evenings, because a book like that lends itself to that sort of reading. Winter's Tale took me weeks to read, and I had to pick it up a couple of times to start over again before I really committed to it. This is not an easy read; it unfolds gradually. You may even feel bored at times. It's essential to give it time, though, and trust that it will unfold, because it truly does, in the most magical, satisfying way imaginable. Another recent favorite of mine: Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Rating: 4
Summary: A pleasant way to pass the cold days...
Comment: Winter's Tale is a modern-day classic. I read this book a while ago and am presently reading it again. It haunts you, it finds a place inside and continues connecting itself long after the last page has been turned. There are numerous analogies to the Bible, and I have begun to think of the "winds from Canada" as not quite so brutal as I remember bits and pieces of the story.
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Title: A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin ISBN: 0151836000 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 06 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin ISBN: 0380727331 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Dove of the East and: Other Stories by Mark Helprin ISBN: 0156261405 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 20 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin ISBN: 0156283158 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 31 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Refiner's Fire by Mark Helprin ISBN: 0156762404 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 20 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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