Winter's Tale (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Winter's Tale Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Winter's Tale Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Mark Helprin:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Winter's Tale Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mark Helprin: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Winter's Tale Thursday, July 16 2009.

• THERE was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently and was not deep, and the sky was swept with vibrant stars, except in the east, where dawn was beginning in a light blue flood.