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Peter Lake è un ladro. Un ladro nella Manhattan dei primi del Novecento in cui la guerra tra bande regala ogni mattina un mucchio di cadaveri a Five Points sul fronte del porto e in luoghi insoliti come campanili, collegi femminili e magazzini di spezie. Peter lavora in proprio, e perciò non interessa più di tanto alle forze dell'ordine sguinzagliate contro il grande crimine. Sta particolarmente a cuore, invece, ai Coda Corta, una dozzina di s...

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From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of...

Almost ten years since his last book, Mark Helprin returns with a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that are his signature. A British paratrooper jumps into occupied territory in order to reconnoiter enemy positions, but a roof breaks his fall, shattered physically, he must decide the extent of his devotion to his mission. The 1958 New York Yankees gain an unexpected teammate in a...

An orphaned immigrant's experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley to Harvard, off to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War.

A breathtaking novel by the author of "A Soldier of the Great War, " this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice.

Here is an old man's magnificent tale of love and war-a recapitulation of a life and a reckoning with mortality.

The 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 American priest must choose between his Church and his God. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect of his comrades in an act of transfiguring gentleness and charity. In a hot, dirty typewriter ribbon facto...

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Peter Lake è un ladro. Un ladro nella Manhattan dei primi del Novecento in cui la guerra tra bande regala ogni mattina un mucchio di cadaveri a Five Points sul fronte del porto e in luoghi insoliti come campanili, collegi femminili e magazzini di spezie. Peter lavora in proprio, e perciò non interessa più di tanto alle forze dell'ordine sguinzagliate contro il grande crimine. Sta particolarmente a cuore, invece, ai Coda Corta, una dozzina di s...

In his latest work, the author of "A Dove of the East and Other Stories" pens an extraordinarily funny allegory of a most peculiar British royal family--a mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.

Winner 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 their concern with enduring and universal questions.

This collection of 16 stories displays the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to be Helprin's signature. Lighthearted, glittering fables are met with starker tales that sound the depths of sacrifice and duty.

Helprin, the author of "A Dove of the East and Other Stories, " offers an extraordinarily funny allegory of a most peculiar British royal family--a mocking of contemporary monarchy that is deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities. Unabridged. 20 CDs.

An epic love story set in post-war New York, by the best-selling author of Winter's Tale.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 Catherine Thomas Hale, as each falls for the other in an instant. They pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters,...

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