Ellis Island & Other Stories

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MARK HELPRIN, perhaps the most highly praised writer of his generation, is capable of working a fierce and beautiful magic. This is further established here with a novella and ten stories that are of tremendous range, and yet are closely unified in their concern with enduring and universal questions.
"Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction the rapid deduction and communication of a personal metaphysics—the aim of writers like Poe, Kafka, and Mann a lean arc of voltage conveyed through tangible human conductors to instant effect." —The New York Times Book Review
"Rarely less than breathtaking, these eleven stories reflect the kind of esthetic tension—the quivering polarities between passion and reason—that instantly signals the presence of art. . . . Every single story sings with purity, vibrates with light and dedicated honesty and vision." —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"His eye is precise and his spirit is compassionate, and when we finish the... Tovább

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MARK HELPRIN, perhaps the most highly praised writer of his generation, is capable of working a fierce and beautiful magic. This is further established here with a novella and ten stories that are of tremendous range, and yet are closely unified in their concern with enduring and universal questions.
"Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction the rapid deduction and communication of a personal metaphysics—the aim of writers like Poe, Kafka, and Mann a lean arc of voltage conveyed through tangible human conductors to instant effect." —The New York Times Book Review
"Rarely less than breathtaking, these eleven stories reflect the kind of esthetic tension—the quivering polarities between passion and reason—that instantly signals the presence of art. . . . Every single story sings with purity, vibrates with light and dedicated honesty and vision." —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"His eye is precise and his spirit is compassionate, and when we finish the stories, we have been rewarded, once more, with that astonishing catalyst of art." —Chicago Tribune
"Helprin creates strange, magical worlds. His rich textures alone would be enough to delight a reader . . . wonderful stories, richly plotted, inventive . . . moving without becoming sentimental, humorous without being cute a celebration of the transforming power of imagination." —The Washington Post
"Helprin, only 33, writes with the ease and assurance of old travelers like Graham Greene or Sean O'Faolain. . . . Read this book. It will delight, open, and elevate you." —The Baltimore Sun
"Maybe it's just youthful energy, or luck. But I don't think so. I think it's genius. . . . Ellis Island ascends to the peak of literary achievement." —The Boston Globe
MARK HELPRIN is the author of A Dove of the East and Other Stories and Refiner's Fire, a novel. Most of his stories have appeared in The New Yorker. Mr. Helprin was born in 1947 and holds degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He has seen service in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli Infantry, and the Israeli Air Force.
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Cover design copyright © 1982 by Mike Stromberg The cover shows a detail from Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain by John Singer Sargent, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., reproduced by kind permission of the National Gallery. Vissza