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Chargement... In Sunlight and in Shadow (original 2012; édition 2012)par Mark Helprin
Information sur l'oeuvreIn Sunlight and in Shadow par Mark Helprin (2012)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Typical Helprin prose, lyrical and magical. ( ) I really wanted to like Mark Helprin. I floundered through "Winter's Tale" before attempting "in Sunlight and in Shadow," and made it to the requisite one-third point before gladly giving it up. The female protagonist, Catherine, is irritatingly beautiful and graceful and elegant, while stoutly defending her burden of being born to a wealthy family; the male protagonist, Harry, is unengaging and long-winded (or at least is described thus). The prose is lovely in small bites but overwhelmingly choppy and extraneous in a full reading.
It’s incredible that this story — or, to be more precise, these stories — hasn’t been told before. Except that, of course, it has, and they have . . . though never before in more than 700 consecutive pages, between the covers of one book. "In its storytelling heft, its moral rectitude, the solemn magnificence of its writing and the splendor of its hymns to New York City, the new novel [In Sunlight and in Shadow] is a spiritual pendant to 'Winter's Tale,' and every bit as extraordinary. . . . [T]he writing throughout 'In Sunlight and in Shadow' sounds as though it were scored to some great choral symphony." Elegant, elegiac novel of life in postwar America, at once realistic and aspirational, by the ever-accomplished Helprin. ... A fine adult love story—not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up problems that a relationship can bring.
Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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