Winter's Tale
- ISBN-10
- 0547543867
- ISBN-13
- 9780547543864
- Series
- Winter's Tale
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 688
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-09-20
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Mark Helprin
Description
Now a major motion picture 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).
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