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    Ellis Island: And Other Stories
    Ellis Island: And Other Stories
    Ellis Island: And Other Stories
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    Ellis Island: And Other Stories

    By Mark Helprin

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    This award-winning short story collection by the acclaimed author of Winter’s Tale “ascends to the peak of literary achievement” (The Boston Globe).

    Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these eleven stories demonstrate Mark Helprin’s mastery of fiction across a diverse spectrum of styles. The stories in this collection range from children caught in a Vermont blizzard to an English sea captain who encounters an ape adrift in the Indian Ocean. The title novella tells the tale of a Jewish immigrant who arrives in New York City with little more than an ivory pen—and an unflagging determination to survive the indignities of Ellis Island’s many protocols.

    In the worlds of The Philadelphia Inquirer, this collection presents “stories beyond compare…[Helprin’s] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service.”

    "Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction."—New York Times Book Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781328954336
    Ellis Island: And Other Stories
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    Mark Helprin

    Educated at Harvard, Princeton and Oxford, Mark Helprin served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British merchant navy. He is the author of six novels and three short-story collections and he also writes non-fiction and children's books, whose titles include A New York Winter's Tale.

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      I loved Winter's Tale, but I don't remember much about these stories. Helprin's political views are distressing, but he's a great writer of fiction.

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