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  <title><![CDATA[Ellis Island and Other Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ellis Island is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award and nominee for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Book Award. These 10 stories and the celebrated title novella are beyond compare. The Philadelphia Inquirer says, &quot;Helprin's imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service.&quot; </default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mark Helprin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Home for the weekend, I pulled this collection of Mark Helprin’s short stories off <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2224922">my brother</a>’s bookshelf to peruse it.  Already a devoted fan of Helprin’s novels, I had found this one in the library several years ago and eagerly read through it.  I remember being quite impressed, and leafin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54161539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great collection of stories.  Consistent story telling that transports you.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, lyrical and offbeat. In Helprin's hands, nothing that happens, however small, is ordinary. On almost every page there is a sentence or phrase that just stops you cold with its beauty. My favorite stories are the title novella and The Schreuderspitze.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories in this slim volume seem uneven to me, with some really memorable and more often than not haunting, and others that for me just didn't quite work. The best, I thought, wasn't the title story but The Schreudersptize.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, I just love Helprin. Of course I loved this book. I'd give it 5 stars, but I don't think I'll ever like short stories that much, regardless of who write them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Home of &quot;The Schreuderspitze,&quot; a remarkable story.]]></body>
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