![]() ![]() Mark Helprin is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently-lives in Earlysville, Virginia.Education-B.A., M.A., Harvard University.The book's 2014 film version stars Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay. His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature. ( From the publisher.) It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home. One winter night, Peter Lake-master mechanic and second-storey man-attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Mark Helprin’s masterpiece will transport you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows. ![]()
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