Refiner's Fire

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"Every once in a while a book appears that engulfs you in its limitless beauty. . . .
"As if The Odyssey had been updated and rewritten by Dylan Thomas" {The Listener, London), Refiner's Fire is the story of Marshall Pearl, orphaned at birth aboard an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947 and brought as an infant into the "ardent unlimitedness" of America. Determined to see the world in its beauty, ferocity, and ultimate justice, he does so, in scenes of gorgeous color and great excitement, as a child in the Hudson Valley, fighting the Rastafarians in Jamaica, at Harvard, in a slaughterhouse on the Great Plains, in the Mexican desert, on the sea, and in the Alps. Finally, he is drawn to Israel to confront the logic of his birth in a crucible of war, magic, suffering, and grace. At the opening of the book, he is one of the dying wounded being transported to Haifa during the 1973 War: We follow him as he dreams,... Tovább

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>>$¦=1.15 Fiction
(HIÉHER IN CANADA)
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"Every once in a while a book appears that engulfs you in its limitless beauty. . . .
"As if The Odyssey had been updated and rewritten by Dylan Thomas" {The Listener, London), Refiner's Fire is the story of Marshall Pearl, orphaned at birth aboard an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947 and brought as an infant into the "ardent unlimitedness" of America. Determined to see the world in its beauty, ferocity, and ultimate justice, he does so, in scenes of gorgeous color and great excitement, as a child in the Hudson Valley, fighting the Rastafarians in Jamaica, at Harvard, in a slaughterhouse on the Great Plains, in the Mexican desert, on the sea, and in the Alps. Finally, he is drawn to Israel to confront the logic of his birth in a crucible of war, magic, suffering, and grace. At the opening of the book, he is one of the dying wounded being transported to Haifa during the 1973 War: We follow him as he dreams, reconstructing his life, until, by the strength of what he has learned, suffered, and hoped, Marshall Pearl rises.
"Superb. . . . A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned .w^drous truths. . . . That best of all possible novels: read ten pages and you can't put it down; finish it and you'll feel it haunt your days and nights." — Patricia Holt, The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"Marvelous. . . . A brilliantly sinuous tale that sets an Augie March-like young man into a Gabriel Garcia Márquez universe. At once we know we are in the presence of a storyteller of seemingly effortless and artless grace." — Joyce Garol Gates, The New York Times Book Review
"Fabulous. . . . Imagine Fielding's Tom Jones reborn into the twentieth century with Laurence Stern as midwife." — Harper's Magazine
"Refiner's Fire is an experience, like being shot out of a cannon —exhilarating, extravagant, vertiginous. " —Margaret Manning, Tfe Boston G/o?e
"Mark Helprin . . . risks more than most novelists dare in ten years. Helprin writes like a saint, plots like a demon, and has an imagination that would be felonious in all but the larger democracies. . . . The sound that drowns all others in this novel is that of kingdom-come ignition."
— John Calvin Batchelor, Village Voice
'". . . This is such a book. Helprin's use of language and imagery is an ineffable joy"
— Michael J. Handler, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Mark Helprin is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Ellis Island & Other Stories, Swan Lake, and Winter's Tale.
Also by Mark Helprin and available as a Harvest/HBJ paperback: A Dove of the East & Other Stories Vissza