Post-World War II Manhattan isn’t merely the backdrop for their love affair it’s a magical urban landscape of “whitening sunrises … ferries that glide across the harbor trailing smoke … bridges diamond-lit and distant.”Įven when Helprin first won acclaim three decades ago for such early works as “Ellis Island and Other Stories” and the novel “Winter’s Tale,” his penchant for providing an epiphany on nearly every page could become wearying. Indeed, prose seems too mundane a term for Helprin’s extravagant way with words and emotions as he chronicles the courtship and marriage of Army veteran Harry Copeland and heiress/actress Catherine Thomas Hale. It’s been 17 years since Mark Helprin’s last novel, “Memoir from Antproof Case,” and he’s lost none of his gift for bravura storytelling and lavish prose.
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