A breathtaking novel by the author of A Soldier of the Great War, this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice.
I find myself nervous, to a degree I don\'t recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance.--Benjamin DeMott, New York Times Book Review. . .
Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled . . .
A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . .
Utterly extraordinary .
His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.
It is a love so powerful that Peter, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead.
Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption.
Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home.
One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortresslike mansion on the Upper West Side.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin\'s masterpiece transports you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows...
A breathtaking novel by the author of A Soldier of the Great War, this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice
