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" Winter's tale / "
by Mark Helprin
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BL
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| Record Number
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623328
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Helprin, Mark
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| Title & Author
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Winter's tale /\ by Mark Helprin
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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xii, 673 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0151972036
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| Contents
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A white horse escapes -- The ferry burns in morning cold -- Pearly soames -- Peter Lake from a star -- Beverly -- A goddess in the bath -- On the marsh -- Lake of the Coheeries -- The hospital in Printing House Square -- Aceldama -- Four gates to the city -- Lake of the Coheeries -- In the drifts -- A new life -- Hell gate -- Nothing is random -- Peter Lake returns -- The sun ... -- ... and the ghost -- An early summer dinner at Petipas -- The machine age -- A very short history of the clouds -- Battery bridge -- White horse and dark horse -- The white dog of Afghanistan -- Abysmillard redux -- Ex machina -- For the soldiers and sailors of Chelsea -- The city alight -- A golden age
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| Abstract
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Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinare--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York City in the year 2000
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Irish Americans, Fiction
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Reincarnation, Fiction
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Burglars, Fiction
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Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.), Fiction
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3558.E4775W5 1983
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