Winter's Tale

I love it

I love the Love Story of ♥️Peter Lake and Beverley Peen ♥️

Ein wunderbares, modernes Fantasy/Maerchen, grossartig geschrieben. Auch der Film ist sehr zu empfehlen.

awesome story

Helprin is in love with language and 800 pages allows him ample opportunity to gloriously stun the reader with imagery, humor, magical realism/fantasy, allegory, mythology, and love. What is magical in the world he creates seems worth imagining. It seemed that "if only" it were possible -- if good and evil were in perfect balance and justice prevailed, then all things (motors, architecture, bridges, buildings) and all people (old, young, beautiful, ugly, rich and poor, clever and talented and not) would find love. Love, here, being the appreciation of individual talents-of individuality itself. Certainly there were sections I found more tedious than others; but Helprin truly is in love with words and images and with cities and the mechanics of things-- the engineering. This book is a love letter-- to improbable love, to fated love, to family, and especially to New York- which is built, rebuilt, and will forever be rebuilt as a city striving for justice in a golden light. Written in 1983, parts are eerily prescient and I thought often of current politics and the destruction of the Twin Towers. I will never look at ice in the same way. The movie trailers make this seem like "just a time-travel love story" and it's so much more! Yes, it is challenging reading but it is also amazing reading. I think it might be a "love it or hate it" book. (Mostly) I loved it.