Winter's Tale (First Edition)

Helprin, Mark

ISBN 10: 0151972036 / ISBN 13: 9780151972036

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1983

About this Item

New York, HBJ, 1983. First edition. Sixth printing (with letter line starting with F). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($35.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel that place in a mythic New York City in an industrial Edwardian era near the turn of the 20th century. Akiva Goldsman wrote a screenplay based on the novel and directed a feature film from the script, which was released in 2014. Upon release, the novel was praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review as "funny, thoughtful, passionate.large-souled.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Winter's Tale (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151972036
• ISBN 13: 9780151972036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. “This novel...is a gifted writer’s love affair with the language” (Newsday).

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.