Ellis Island and Other Stories
by Mark Helprin
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and nominee for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Book Award, these ten stories and the celebrated title novella are "beyond compare . . . [Helprin's] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Tags
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I loved Winter's Tale, but I don't remember much about these stories. Helprin's political views are distressing, but he's a great writer of fiction.
I've always meant to read more of Helprin. He is a good writer.
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Mark Helprin was born in Manhattan, New York on June 28, 1947. He received degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford, Princeton University, and Columbia University. He has served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air show more Force. He is the author of numerous novels including Refiner's Fire, A Soldier of the Great War, Memoir from Antproof Case, Freddy and Fredericka, and In Sunlight and In Shadow. Winter's Tale was adapted into a movie in 2014. His short story collection, Ellis Island and Other Stories, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1981. His other short story collections include A Dove of the East and Other Stories and The Pacific and Other Stories. He also writes children's books including Swan Lake, A City in Winter, and The Veil of Snows. He has received several awards including the National Jewish Book Award, the Prix de Rome, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award in 2006, and the Salvatori Prize in the American Founding in 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1981
- First words
- In Munich are many men who look like weasels. Whether by genetic accident, meticulous crossbreeding, an early and puzzling migration, coincidence, or a reason we do not know, they exist in great numbers. Remarkably, they acce... (show all)ntuate this unfortunate tendency by wearing mustaches, Alpine hats, and tweed. A man who resembles a rodent should never wear tweed.
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- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 5
