In Sunlight And In Shadow (Hardcover)
| Author: Mark Helprin |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-10: 0547819234
ISBN-13: 9780547819235
Sku: 227825902
Publish Date: 10/2/2012
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720
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| OHome from the war and basking in the bright lights of 1947 New York, wealthy Harry Copeland encounters heiress and aspiring actress Catherine Thomas Hale on the Staten Island ferry, and a great passion is born. Alas, Catherine is engaged to a much older man, but she and Harry pursue a romance against the backdrop of Broadway theaters and Long Island mansions.ON"Library Journal." |
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Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping new novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all? New York in 1947 glows with post-war energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls for him in an instant, too late to prevent her engagement to a much older man. Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in postwar America's Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine's choice of Harry over her long-time fiancé endangers Harry's livelihood and eventually threatens his life. 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. |
Author Bio
Mark Helprin
Helprin grew up in the Hudson River Valley, the son of immigrants. He has both a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard, and served in the British Merchant Navy as well as in the Israeli army. "The New Yorker" published his first story when he was 21; his first collection appeared in 1975. His first novel, "Refiner's Fire", was published two years later, and his 1981 collection, "Ellis Island and Other Stories", won the National Jewish Book Award in 1982. He was a speechwriter for Bob Dole in the 1990 presidential election. In his novels and stories, Helprin differs from many of his contemporaries in his unswervingly affirmative worldview.
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