Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin’s historical novel Sunlight and in Shadow (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28.00) is set in post WWII New York, where Harry, a former paratrooper, must put his character and his skills to the test to fight for his love, Catherine. In the end, it is Harry’s extraordinary wartime experience that gives him the character and means to fight for Catherine, and risk everything. “Helprin’s suspenseful, many-stranded plot is unfailingly enthralling.”—Booklist starred review. Helprin, whose work has been translated into over 20 languages, is the author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works.
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