Monday, February 24, 2014

Winter’s Tale - Mark Helprin - big book, major movie


Mark Helprin's acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint, and Russell Crowe. Written and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). The film is now showing throughout New Zealand.

The big (750 pages), powerful novel is reissued to coincide with the movie.
Picador - NZ$24.99

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 is a simple and uneducated man who, 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 a beautiful and extraordinary story of American literature.


About the author:

Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.

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