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Ellis Island and Other Stories
Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.
Book Details
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2005
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.36in - 0.52in - 0.46lb
- EAN: 9780156030601
- Categories: • Anthologies (multiple authors)• Short Stories (single author)• Jewish
About the Author
Helprin, Mark: -
Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, The Oceans and the Stars, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.
Praise for this book
PRAISE FOR ELLIS ISLAND
"It's genius. . . . Ellis Island ascends to the peak of literary achievement." - The Boston Globe
"Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction." - The New York Times Book Review
"Constant brilliance . . . Rarely less than breathtaking . . . every single story sings with purity, vibrates with light."- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
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