Ellis Island and Other Stories - Softcover

Helprin, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440522048 ISBN 13: 9780440522041

Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1982

Synopsis

Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth aboard an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947 and brought as an infant to America. Determined to see the world in its beauty, ferocity, and ultimate justice, he does so, in scenes of gorgeous color and great excitement, as a child in the Hudson Valley, fighting the Rastafarians in Jamaica, at Harvard, in a slaughterhouse on the Great Plains, in the Mexican desert, on the sea, and in the Alps. Finally, he is drawn to Israel to confront the logic of his birth in a crucible of war, magic, suffering, and grace. At the opening of the book, he is one of the dying wounded being transported to Haifa during the 1973 War. We follow him as he dreams, reconstructing his life, until, by the strength of what he has learned, suffered, and hoped, Marshall Pearl rises.

About this title

From the Back Cover

These ten stories and the title novella, Ellis Island, exhibit a tremendous range and versatility of style and technique and yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.
"It's genius . . . Ellis Island ascends to the peak of literary achievement." -- The Boston Globe
"Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction." -- New York Times Book Review
"Constant brilliance . . . Rarely less than heartbreaking . . . every single story sings with purity, vibrates with light." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Stories beyond compare . . . [Helprin's] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service." -- "Philadelphia Inquirer"
Mark Helprin is the author of, among other titles, the "New York Times" best-sellers "Winter's Tale "and "A Soldier of the Great War."

About the Author

MARK HELPRIN is the author of, among other titles, the New York Times bestsellers Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War.

Edition details

• Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440522048
• ISBN 13: 9780440522041
• Binding: Paperback