Oh, I couldn't stay away, the horse thinks, that's why I am so willing to break out of my owner's barn - simply strutting the streets of Manhattan in my horsey way makes it worth the beating that I'm sure to get when I return! Peter falls madly in love with Beverly Penn, a beautiful, frail young woman who despite her few years on Earth displays the wisdom and sensitivity of someone five times her age I will never look at ice in the same way. Those bits fall very, very flat. Before writing this review, I flipped back through the book at random, finding some ludicrously juvenile word dumps every time I stopped. Why is it that the one horrid person in the universe is a complete buffoon? The human characters came and went without any real impact, either on the story or on me, although the magical horse is characterized probably better than most. 
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All that being said, the book does reach some great heights, and it's usually in the simpler, plot-driven parts. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? I kept gravitating to other books. He's got a particular obsession for gold, not because it's valuable, but because it's shiny.
hale And then it happened Written inparts are eerily prescient and I thought often of current politics and the destruction of the Twin Towers. This was a late-in-the-day reading for me, of a novel that had been praised to the heavens by many of my contemporaries during and since the era when it was first published. I reached page and assumed the book was completely about Peter Lake.
Winter's Tale
I read this book thirty years ago as a high school freshman. I'll make sure I eat dessert first, just in case they kick me out! The movie trailers make this seem like "just a time-travel love story" and it's so much more!
Its extremely historical and should appeal anyone who, like me, is a geek for anything about the history of Manhattan--particularly in the sections set amongst the gang wars in the five points neighborhood in the mid nineteenth century--and yet, at the same time, the universe in which the book dwells is just slightly removed from ours, a magic realist retelling of the history of New York [and, by extension, America].
Foundling Peter is raised by a group known at Baymen, an unusual band that is part deep interior bayou folk and part Native Americans. There are moments in this book so good that they make the reader forget to breathe.
It wants to reach beyond the stars, beyond the conventions of fictional narrative, beyond plausibility, to be that myth. He ends up in some fantastical marsh lands around New Jersey or something, a Moses to the marsh people.
I swear I'm not being unfair in my quotation-picking.
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
His story is the primary character-driven thread here. Everything that ever was, is; everything hale ever will be, is—and so on, in all possible combinations.
Without faith, a person is a mechanism, and then there's no reason he shouldn't be treated or work under those assumptions, as a mechanism. The plot spans over a hundred years, yet it was difficult to work out where you are in this timescale at any given point. I almost finished this 2 weeks ago, but couldn't bear to so I left the last 10 pages. Does he think that if it's repeated often enough it will become true? The enormous length of this book just made it painful to read!
This is wintfrs rewarding and wondrous book for those who will actually take time for it and really get lost inside.
View all 18 comments. The book never shakes off its internal confusion and decides what it wants to be and where it wants to go, and ultimately fails to leave any mark.
Return to Book Page. Well done, I thought. If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The concept of a "pure" anything is, to me, dangerous and foolhardy, and Helprin dwells taoe two big ones -- justice and love -- until they're as abstracted and unwieldy as they can possibly be, and no payoff could possibly equal the gigantic build-up.
Let's talk about what it is. The atle was springlike. And there are many, many, MANY words here to get high on. Doors in the Walls of the World: If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to their children.
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