IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW -Signed First American Edition-

Mark Helprin

ISBN 10: 0547819234 / ISBN 13: 9780547819235

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2012

About this Item

As-new copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket, signed by the author in ink on the title page (here at Chartwell Booksellers).

Seller Inventory # 141137

Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW -Signed First American Edition-
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0547819234
• ISBN 13: 9780547819235
• Binding: Hardcover in Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.