Word: helprin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙ Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak ∙ Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban ∙ The Testament, Elie Wiesel ∙The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas ∙ Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth
...Helprin ∙ Outside Over There...
ELLIS ISLAND & OTHER STORIES by Mark Helprin Delacorte; 196 pages...
...Mark Helprin has the knack of creating exquisite tensions without disturbing the surface of his stories. And he understands the fabulist's task: "Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes...
Ellis Island, the long title story, is an inspired amusement about the immigrant experience. Helprin's America is full of useful surprises, rewards and opportunities to change identities as easily as one changes socks. The protagonist, a promising and eager young writer from Eastern Europe, ricochets toward his dream of happiness. The scenes, expansive and fantastic, create an air of giddy expectancy. One would not have been surprised to find Paul Bunyan chased by Marc Chagall with a can of spray paint...