Ellis Island and Other Stories

Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.

About the author

Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, The Oceans and the Stars, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.

Summary

Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Helprin
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2005
• EAN: 9780156030601
• ISBN: 978-0-15-603060-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 195 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Fantasy, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Religious, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION: Jewish, FICTION: Erotica / Collections & Anthologies