[nesfa-reading-group] Three Books

Sat Oct 7 21:42:01 EDT 2023

Fascinating -- I can't find the Amazonesque entry even if I search directly for it, or Google "new york winter's tale". (I thought it might have been a retitling for marketing; cf Murder at the War, which somebody reissued as Knightfall.)  Somebody's having us on....

/CHip
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The novel is:

On Oct 7, 2023, at 4:39 PM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

Ah, I see that it is listed as "A Winter's Tale" in Mark Helprin booklist.  But see the attached, which was the first thing that a google search produced.

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 4:32 PM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com<mailto:dggrubbs at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto: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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