[nesfa-reading-group] Three Books

Sat Oct 7 23:12:34 EDT 2023

it is one of book editions - probably movie cross-promotion see cover
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Winters-Tale/dp/1447247558/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s_Tale_(film)
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best,

Alek

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:40 PM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> That image I sent was from "Goodreads", which I don't think has a habit of
> tricking the reader.
>
> And I found it listed with three different names in various places. But
> the third name, "Winter's Tale" (without the leading "A"), is the majority.
> Google search for that produces a different Goodreads page and pages at
> Wikipedia and other places.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 9:42 PM cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi at newcastle2.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* reading-group <reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org> on behalf
>> of Gloria Lucia Albasi <trebbiana61 at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, October 7, 2023 5:12 PM
>> *To:* NESFA Reading Group <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Three Books
>>
>> The novel is:
>>
>> “Winter’s Tale”, written by Mark Helprin, copyright ©️ 1983.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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>
>> 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> 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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