The Pacific and Other Stories - Softcover

Helprin, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143035762 ISBN 13: 9780143035763

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2005

Synopsis

A dazzling collection of short stories by Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly

The Pacific and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to be Mark Helprin's signature. A British paratrooper jumps into occupied territory; the 1958 New York Yankees gain an unexpected teammate in a puny, teenaged Hasidic Jew; a September 11th widow receives an astonishing gift from the contractor working on her new apartment--these and other stories exhibit the constantly changing variety of the ocean itself, the peaks and troughs of life. Lighthearted, glittering fables are met with starker tales that sound the depths of sacrifice and duty. The Pacific and Other Stories is a resplendent, powerful collection of lasting substance and emotional import.

About this title

Review:

"Helprin reaffirms his place as our most elegant moralist... [His] range is staggering." --Entertainment Weekly, Editor's Choice

"There is plenty of magic here ... in a prose that is as glassy and smooth as amber." --Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford, Mark Helprin served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner's Fire, Ellis Island and Other Stories, Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, and Memoir from Antproof Case.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143035762
• ISBN 13: 9780143035763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384