In Sunlight and in Shadow - Hardcover

Helprin, Mark

 
9780547819235: In Sunlight and in Shadow
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0547819234 ISBN 13: 9780547819235
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Can love and honor conquer all?

Mark Helprin’s enchanting and sweeping novel springs from this deceptively simple question, and from the sight of a beautiful young woman, dressed in white, on the Staten Island Ferry, at the beginning of summer, 1946.

Postwar New York glows with energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an instant.

Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine’s choice of Harry over her longtime fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and eventually threatens his life. In the end, it is Harry’s extraordinary wartime experience that gives him the character and means to fight for Catherine, and risk everything.

Not since Winter’s Tale has Mark Helprin written such a magically inspiring saga. Entrancing in its lyricism, In Sunlight and in Shadow so powerfully draws you into New York at the dawn of the modern age that, as in a vivid dream, you will not want to leave.

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Praise for Mark Helprin

Helprin is a fine writer, a pyrotechnic writer, a writer who can leave you breathless with his command of the language . . . He speaks with the tongues of angels. San Francisco Chronicle

Mark Helprin writes with ease and sureness . . . with a compassionate understanding and a clean, lucid prose . . . that is all too rare in our fiction. New York Times Book Review

Helprin is splendid, a major talent. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Helprin is one of the most ambitious novelists of our day. Washington Post Book World

Joyce and Nabokov could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind. Time

Helprin s use of language and imagery is an ineffable joy. Philadelphia Inquirer

Helprin is a genius. Boston Globe



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Can love and honor conquer all?

Mark Helprin s enchanting and sweeping novel springs from this deceptively simple question, and from the sight of a beautiful young woman, dressed in white, on the Staten Island Ferry, at the beginning of summer, 1946.

Postwar New York glows with energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an instant.

Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine s choice of Harry over her longtime fiancé endangers Harry s livelihood and eventually threatens his life. In the end, it is Harry s extraordinary wartime experience that gives him the character and means to fight for Catherine, and risk everything.

Not since Winter s Tale has Mark Helprin written such a magically inspiring saga. Entrancing in its lyricism, In Sunlight and in Shadow so powerfully draws you into New York at the dawn of the modern age that, as in a vivid dream, you will not want to leave.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0547819234
ISBN 13 
9780547819235
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