Winter's Tale (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Mark HelprinMark 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 fortres...
In the summer of 1946, New York City pulses with energy. Harry Copeland, a World War II veteran, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherin...
Born on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, Helprin's hero is adopted by a wealthy American couple, who raise him in a life of privilege in a town on the Hudson. But Marshall Pearl is a seeker, and his quest for love...
Mark Helprin’s comic fable presupposes a rehabilitated Charles-and-Diana relationship: the nuttily brilliant Prince Freddy and the gorgeously daffy Princess Fredericka. The two are simply not cut out to be members of the illustr...
Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel
Mark HelprinThe "enchanting, passionate, and uplifting" (Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, "Best New Fiction") new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great Wa...
Ellis Island and Other Stories
Mark HelprinWinner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, 'Ellis Island,' exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in th...
A new collection of short fiction by the author of Winter's Tale features sixteen stories that profile such colorful characters as a British paratrooper on a mission behind enemy lines, a teenage Hasidic Jew who joins the 1958 Yankees...
For Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman Lawyer, golden trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue. At night the moon is amber and the city of Rome seethes with light. He races horses across the country...
A Dove of the East: And Other Stories...
Mark HelprinThe twenty stories here, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker and have since been anthologized throughout the world, are strikingly beautiful essays on enduring and universal questions: In Rome, in the hour of his death, and...
An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói...