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Mark Helprin

Biography

Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of WINTER'S TALE, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR, FREDDY AND FREDERICKA, THE PACIFIC, ELLIS ISLAND, MEMOIR FROM ANTPROOF CASE, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over 20 languages.

Mark Helprin

Books by Mark Helprin

by Mark Helprin - Fiction, Romance

One winter night, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. 

by Mark Helprin - Fiction, Historical Fiction

New York, 1908: The days are getting longer --- and warmer --- in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn’t want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she’s expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County. Molly tells herself it won’t be so bad, after all the countryside is pretty, and she’s determined to make the best of it. Even if she’s leaving her husband, Daniel, behind. And at least she’s not the only one heading north. Her great friends, Sid and Gus, are headed to the Catskills to visit Sid’s family.