Mark Helprin's acclaimed novel
is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay,
Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint, and Russell Crowe. Written
and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). The film is now showing throughout New Zealand.
The big (750 pages), powerful novel is reissued to coincide with the movie.
Picador - NZ$24.99
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 the 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 is a simple and uneducated man who, 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 a beautiful and extraordinary
story of American literature.
About the author:
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 twenty languages.
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