Astrological winters envelops a mystical New York City surrounding with a magical cloud that absorbs Peter Lake and his white horse, Athansor, and releases him 100 years later in 2000. Before he flies into the cloud, this middle age burglar falls deeply in love and irrevocably with critically ill Beverly Penn, daughter of a wealthy newspaper mogul when he breaks into her house. Helprin tells of this love and wraps it in such lyrical and lush language within this magical realism that involves so many many characters like Lake's evil ex-cronies, the Short Tails whose boss has a thing for color, or the pair of journalists who fall in love before they meet as they talk through the paper thin walls of their cheap apartments. This is a very dense, intricately plotted book that is much more than a simple love story. It is a big story of a big city and interesting quirky characters. At times it seems so real. A movie is due out soon.
Really Big Book.
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