This "dazzling collection" of short stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of
Winter's Talecontemplates the human experience across the globe (
The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner).
In these twenty stories, Mark Helprin offers a series of meditations on some of humanity's most enduring and universal questions. At the hour of his death, an American priest in Rome must choose between his church and his God. A young man finds love in a hot, dirty typewriter-ribbon factory in the Bronx. A Dutch child in a Canadian orphanage carries the pain of war and her love for her family in her heart. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect of his comrades in an act of transformative charity.
Through beautifully rendered memories and moments of epiphany, "all Helprin's stories deal with essences which lead from the heart…his images are clean and sharp and bright" (Kirkus).
"When you read these stories, a you must, you will, I believe, be uplifted and awed."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Print ISBN
9780156031011
Subtopic
Literature GeneralTable of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- A Jew of Persia
- Because of the Waters of the Flood
- Ruin
- First Russian Summer
- Katrina, Katrin’
- Shooting the Bar—1904
- Lightning North of Paris
- Mountain Dancing in Truchas
- Leaving the Church
- Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky
- Elisha Hospital
- End of the Line
- The Legitimacy of Medium Beauty
- The Home Front
- Willis Avenue
- Elizabeth Ridinoure
- The Silver Bracelet
- On “The White Girl” by James Whistler
- Back Bay Conservatory
- A Dove of the East
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
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