[nesfa-reading-group] Three Books

[David G. Grubbs]

Is that third one supposed to be:  *A New York Winter's Tale* by Mark
Helprin


On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 3:14 PM Richard Schwartz via reading-group <
reading-group at lists.nesfa.org> wrote:

>
> Here is the list of the three books I am putting forward to be voted on
> during our November Reading Group.
>
> 1924
> *The King of Elfland's Daughter*
> Lord Dunsany <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9172.Lord_Dunsany>, Neil
> Gaiman (Introduction)
> <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1221698.Neil_Gaiman>
>
> The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter
> has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a
> masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists.
> The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf
> princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily
> ever after."
>
>
> 1979
> *Bloody Chamber and Other Stories*
> Angela Carter <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27500.Angela_Carter>
>
> Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil
> Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and
> other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The
> Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s
> 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual
> versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,”
> “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them
> exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the
> gothic tradition.
>
>
> *1983*
> *Winter's Tale*
> ark Helprin <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8146.Mark_Helprin>
>
>
> 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 the 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 besieged
> by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary
> stories of American literature.
>
>
>
>
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