基本信息·出版社：Harvest Books ·页码：768 页 ·出版日期：2005年06月 ·ISBN：0156031191 ·International Standard Book Number：0156031191 ·条形 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Harvest Books
·页码：768 页
·出版日期：2005年06月
·ISBN：0156031191
·International Standard Book Number：0156031191
·条形码：9780156031196
·EAN：9780156031196
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.
Though he thinks hte house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.
Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.
作者简介 MARK HELPRIN has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, among many other publications. His collection The Pacific and Other Stories was published in the fall of 2004. He lives in Virginia.
编辑推荐 The celebrated New York City epic appears for the first time in trade paperback in anticipation of publication of Helprin's new novel, Memoir from Antproof Case.
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Publishers Weekly )^"This novel is imaginatively engaging as well as entertaining, and it will find an eager audience among adults and older adolescents alike," predicted LJ's reviewer quite accurately (LJ 8/83) the book became a smash best seller. This magical story of the multiple lives of protagonist Peter Lake is now available in an oversized trade paper edition.
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Library Journal )
目录 I. THE CITY
A White Horse Escapes 3
The Ferry Burns in Morning Cold 10
Pearly Soames 20
Peter Lake Hangs from a Star 40
Beverly 95
A Goddess in the Bath 110
On the Marsh 130
Lake of the Coheeries 143
The Hospital in Printing House Square 173
Aceldama 191
II. FOUR GATES TO THE CITY
Four Gates to the City 219
Lake of the Coheeries 221
In the Drifts 264
A New Life 347
Hell Gate 370
III. THE SUN...AND THE GHOST
Nothing Is Random 401
Peter Lake Returns 403
The Sun... 418
...and The Ghost 438
An Early Summer Dinner at Petipas 445
The Machine Age 456
IV. A GOLDEN AGE
A Very Short History of the Clouds 505
Battery Bridge 507
White Horse and Dark Horse 544
The White Dog of Afghanistan 579
Abysmillard Redux 591
Ex Machina 606
For the Soldiers and Sailors of Chelsea 641
The City Alight 666
A Golden Age 697
epilogue 747
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文摘 A WHITE HORSE ESCAPES
THERE WAS a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently and was not deep, and the sky was swept with vibrant stars, except in the east, where dawn was beginning in a light blue flood. The air was motionless, but would soon start to move as the sun came up and winds from Canada came charging down the Hudson.
The horse had escaped from his master's small clapboard stable in Brooklyn. He trotted alone over the carriage road of the Williamsburg Bridge, before the light, while the toll keeper was sleeping by his stove and many stars were still blazing above the city. Fresh snow on the bridge muffled his hoofbeats, and he sometimes turned his head and looked behind him to see if he was being followed. He was warm from his own effort and he breathed steadily, having loped four or five miles through the dead of Brooklyn past silent churches and shuttered stores. Far to the south, in the black, ice-choked waters of the Narrows, a sparkling light marked the ferry on its way to Manhattan, where only market men were up, waiting for the fishing boats to glide down through Hell Gate and the night.
The horse was crazy, but, still, he was able to worry about what he had done. He knew that shortly his master and mistress would arise and light the fire. Utterly humiliated, the cat would be tossed out the kitchen door, to fly backward into a snow-covered sawdust pile. The scent of blueberries and hot batter would mix with the sweet smell of a pine fire, and not too long afterward his master would stride across the yard to the stable to feed him and hitch him up to the milk wagon. But he would not be there.
This was a good joke, this defiance which made his heart beat in terror, for he was sure his master would soon be after him. Though he realized that he might be subject to a painful beating, he sensed that the master was amused, pleased, and touched by rebellion as often as not-if it were in th
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