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...Mark Helprin...
Even before publication, the word on Winter's Tale was astonishment. In an eight-day auction, nine publishers bid for the manuscript; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich acquired the rights for $250,000 plus a $100,000 promotional budget, plus a $100,000 option on Author Mark Helprin's next novel. In a time of recession in the publishing industry, the purchase seemed profligate. But it has already begun to pay off. A first printing of 50,000 has disappeared rapidly, and the book has already made the bestseller list. Yet all these achievements pale beside Helprin's purple...
...journey, Helprin, 36, strains for comparisons to his 19th century master. The names of characters could have been culled from the pages of The Pickwick Papers: the Rev. Mootfowl, Pearly Soames, Rupert Binky, Daythril Moobcot, Hardesty Marratta, Jesse Honey. The portraits of the huddled poor, the satirically named newspapers (the Evening Ghost, the Morning Whale) all echo Dickens' works. But it is Oliver without a Twist, Chuzzle minus...
FICTION: Dad, William Wharton Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin ∙The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sábato ∙Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban ∙The Testament, Elie Wiesel ∙Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth...
Ellis Island & Other Stories, Mark Helprin...