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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. |
Abstract:
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 Hasidic Jew who joins the 1958 Yankees, and a female reservist with the Israeli army searching for love.
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"Stories beyond compare...Helprin is uncanny...[his] imagination should be protected by some such equivalent of the National Park Service."
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