In Sunlight and in Shadow - Hardcover

Helprin, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547819234 ISBN 13: 9780547819235

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

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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.

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Praise for Mark Helprin

“Helprin is a fine writer, a pyrotechnic writer, a writer who can leave you breathless with his command of the language . . . He speaks with the tongues of angels.” — San Francisco Chronicle

“Mark Helprin writes with ease and sureness . . . with a compassionate understanding and a clean, lucid prose . . . that is all too rare in our fiction.” — New York Times Book Review

“Helprin is splendid, a major talent.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Helprin is one of the most ambitious novelists of our day.” — Washington Post Book World

“Joyce and Nabokov could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind.” — Time

“Helprin’s use of language and imagery is an ineffable joy.” — Philadelphia Inquirer

“Helprin is a genius.” — Boston Globe

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547819234
• ISBN 13: 9780547819235
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 705