Winter's Tale
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Winter's Tale
| Author | Mark Helprin |
|---|---|
| Published | 1983 |
| Pages | 673 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Helprin’s fantastical novel of New York across a century — a burglar, a flying white horse, a newspaper dynasty and a city rendered as a machine with a will of its own. The city itself is the protagonist, which is why it keeps turning up on lists about building. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @moseskagan — named in the thread answering “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)”, April 2025. Full list: What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- City Building — the portfolio idea this sits closest to; New York is the book’s real subject.
- Historical Fiction — the genre the thread was asking about.
What links here
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