Winter's Tale

Now a major motion picture<p></p> New York Times bestseller<p></p> &quot;Utterly extraordinary . . . A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . . Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled . . . 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.&quot; - Benjamin DeMott, <i>New York Times Book Review<p></p></i> Mark Helprin's masterpiece will transport you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows. One winter night, Peter Lake - master mechanic and second-storey man - attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.<p></p> &quot;He creates tableaux of such beauty and clarity that the inner eye is stunned.&quot; - <i>Publishers Weekly<p></p></i> &quot;This novel stretches the boundaries of contemporary literature. It is a gifted writer's love affair with the language.&quot; - <i>Newsday</i>