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In Sunlight And In Shadow
Mark Helprin
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2012
On Sale: October 2, 2012
705 pages
ISBN: 0547819234
EAN: 9780547819235
Kindle: B006R8PI8I
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Fiction Family Life
Can love and honor conquer all?
Mark Helprin’s
enchanting and sweeping novel springs from this deceptively
simple question, and from the sight of a beautiful young
woman, dressed in white, on the Staten Island Ferry, at the
beginning of summer, 1946.
Postwar New York glows
with energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought
behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the
family business. Yet his life is upended by a single
encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine
Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an
instant.
Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a
romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island
mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of
gangsters. Catherine’s choice of Harry over her longtime
fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and eventually
threatens his life. In the end, it is Harry’s extraordinary
wartime experience that gives him the character and means
to fight for Catherine, and risk everything.
Not
since Winter’s Tale has Mark Helprin written such a
magically inspiring saga. Entrancing in its lyricism, In
Sunlight and in Shadow so powerfully draws you into New
York at the dawn of the modern age that, as in a vivid
dream, you will not want to leave.
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