A Winter's Tale by Helprin Mark (1984 Pocket Book Paperback) FREE SHIPPING!.

“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, 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 besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.” - Goodreads

Acceptable condition: some cover wear at corners and spine, pages unmolested and intact. Trade paperback, Pocket Books, 1983 (8/84 printing), 688 pages. Shipped via USPS Media Mail PAID BY SELLER.