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The Pacific and other stories

Author: Mark Helprin
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Sixteen stories feature such characters as a British paratrooper on a mission behind enemy lines, a teenage Hasidic Jew who joins the 1958 Yankees, and a September 11th widow who receives a gift from the contractor working on her apartment.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Helprin, Mark.
Pacific and other stories.
New York : Penguin Press, 2004
(OCoLC)646230465
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Helprin
ISBN: 159420036X 9781594200366
OCLC Number: 55286311
Description: 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Il colore ritrovato --
Reconstruction --
Monday --
A brilliant idea and his own --
Vandevere's house --
Prelude --
Perfection --
Sidney Balbion --
Mar nueva --
Rain --Passchendaele --
Jacob Bayer and the telephone --
Sail shining in white --
Charlotte of the Utrechtseweg --
Last tea with the armorers --
The Pacific.
Responsibility: Mark Helprin.

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A new collection of short fiction by the author of Winter's Tale features sixteen stories that profile such colourful characters as a British paratrooper on a mission behind enemy lines, a teenage  Read more...

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