The Pacific And Other Stories - Hardcover

Helprin, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159420036X ISBN 13: 9781594200366

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2004

Synopsis

A new collection of short fiction by the author of Winter's Tale features sixteen stories that profile such colorful characters as a British paratrooper on a mission behind enemy lines, a teenage Hasidic Jew who joins the 1958 Yankees, a female reservist with the Israeli army searching for love, and a September 11th widow who receives a gift from the contractor working on her apartment. 40,000 first printing.

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 Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 159420036X
• ISBN 13: 9781594200366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 366