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Easton Press, Mark Helprin "Winter's Tale" Signed Limited Edition

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Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.: Easton Press. As New; Signed by Author 2007 Signed Edition Full-Leather A special Limited Edition, this copy SIGNED by author Mark Helprin. A wonderful copy of this scarce book in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; Helprin's story of Peter Lake, a turn-of-the-century Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young heiress whom he encounters in robbing her house, and who eventually will die in his arms. His love for her, and a gift of grace, will allow him after most painful explorations and discoveries to stop time and bring back the dead.

Personally signed by Mark Helprin on a special dedication page.

Contains all of the classic Easton Press trimmings: premium leather, silk moir� end leaves, distinctive cover design, hubbed spine, accented in real 22KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, long-lasting, high quality acid-neutral paper, sewn pages for strength and durability.

Book Description

New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.

Though he thinks hte house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.

Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.

About the Author

MARK HELPRIN has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, among many other publications. His collection The Pacific and Other Stories was published in the fall of 2004. He lives in Virginia.