false 12967 17 New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, 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 love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying. Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.<br></div> 1965767 book 1983 Winter's Tale total:2541|5:1315|4:710|3:332|2:126|1:58| 2541 10721 4089 530 5 31 false false Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sun Apr 08 16:11:29 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 08 16:41:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 21 false false Tue Jan 15 07:51:25 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:18:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 7 false false Tue Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 30 08:58:22 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 05 09:47:12 -0800 2008
To be fair, when Helprin isn't waxing ...more...]]> 4 9 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 12 19:55:22 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 30 18:59:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 8 false false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 20 12:49:57 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 19 08:24:32 -0700 2008
This is an intense example of magical realism. At times, the reader must willingly suspend his or her disbelief until the very notion of disb...more...]]> 5 8 false false Wed Aug 29 22:59:34 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 27 22:41:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue Dec 02 20:09:27 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 20:11:59 -0800 2008
Go buy the print book, but do NOT listen to this sing-song, idiotic, perverse abortion of a truly splendid novel. The only way the narrator could be worse is if he dressed up in purple tights and sang it to a Gilbert and Sullivan score. What a ...more...]]> 2 4 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 02:51:04 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 02:52:00 -0700 2007
There are many beautifully descriptive passages, mostly of the wind & snow; the best are those concerninging the magical horse Althansor. Unfortunately, there are many of them, and I found my heart beginning to sink whenever another chapter began with an...more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:38:46 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 30 03:50:52 -0800 2008
The story's heart is a fantastical New York that never was, spanning the turn of the twentieth century through the ...more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 13:07:30 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 09:07:47 -0700 2008 Winter’s Tale might be the book to do it. Helprin has great talent for description, good talent for language, remedial talent for storytelling and almost nothing that resembles perspective.

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I like the bits of magical realism and the writing is very beautiful. I was entranced by the beginning, and the gorgeous descripti...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue May 27 15:55:28 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 04 08:38:42 -0800 2008 Tue May 27 15:55:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 09:07:45 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 15:21:16 -0800 2007
This book tries to locate ma...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 11 19:36:56 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 26 12:34:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 true false Thu Apr 09 06:28:30 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 30 23:48:36 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 09 06:28:30 -0700 2009 5 2 false false Sat Oct 11 13:18:20 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 09:15:19 -0700 2008
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Let me start by stressing that this novel is for READERS. Not people who say they like to read but only do so occasionally or lightly. Or even those who do delve into many w...more...]]> 5 1 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1907 Wed Sep 19 23:59:26 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 09:43:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12967