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I had been planning on reading "Winter's Tale" for several years after hearing some friends rave about Helprin's writing. The novel is divided into four sections. The first section of the book (the romance between Beverly and Peter Lake) bore out the praise - it was beautifully written, very imaginative and affecting. The second section tells of the arrival in New York of several characters who will be important in the rest of the novel. It was OK.

The third section is bad and the fourth section - 250 pages of rambling and incoherent hyperbolic verbal diarrhea - is a disaster. Helprin seems to have completely lost self-control as work on this novel progressed. The novel descends into a hectic and pointless series of grandiloquently-described episodes in which telling a story has been entirely subsumed in verbiage.

My recommendation is that you read the first section (about 200 pages) and just put the book down. You will have had a rewarding read and sampled Helprin's often beautiful writing. Oh, this should have been such a better book than it was.


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Winter Tale Mark Helprin 9780156031196 Books Reviews

Winter's Tale" is an older book with a resurgence because of the movie about it coming out. I thought I might read it before the movie just to see if they stayed close to the story. I certainly didn't anticipate the book was 745 pages long! It is marvelous in many ways but I also felt it was extremely disjointed. There could have (should have?) been three separate related novels. The prose is spectacular and magnificent. The main story (which is what the movie made it all about) was fantasy, celestial and a love affair. A gentleman by the name of Benjamin De Mott wrote a review on the book in the year of 1983 when it first came out. It was in the New York Times and it is well worth reading and in no way would I ever be able to be as understanding or as fair as his review is, so I suggest looking it up. That said, I did enjoy the book but I think that the movie did an incredible job with the love story and didn't attempt to put the rest to film which I thought after reading the book, was a wise decision. It would be extremely hard to put the " etherial " to a concrete film. I would still recommend the book as it is lyrical and interesting. Maybe even the whole fanciful feeling it evokes makes it worthwhile. Just be aware that it is quite and investment of time.
It is rare that I have read a book that I would call almost life changing. One should read this book and be carried away. The author has written a love poem for a place that never appealed to me a great deal, New York city and New York state. He actually made me fall in love with places I have never experienced, as his ability to evoke an emotional response is second to no other author that I have read. His ability to capture place and time though amazing, is possibly only exceeded by his ability to create remarkable, human characters with true human feelings and reactions. You will never forget the turn of the century New York that he recreates and the cast of characters in this book.
I'm on page 589 of this 748 page book and I'm not sure I can go on. Several reviewers have mentioned the book's length. Being somewhat of a minimalist, I have struggled through much of this verbose novel. At it's best, it is magical, recalling my childhood love of Hans Christian Andersen stories. The power of the winter scenes is intoxicating, and I find myself dwelling on images evoked in this story. Being someone who believes in reincarnation and the oneness of creation, I found this to be very moving. However, the story is complex, and I sometimes found characters confusing or irritating as they blathered on in their crazy ways. Of course, the author is conveying that many people do just that, so I can't fault him. It's just that I can't take as much as he's dishing up. I would personally like this book to be cut down in size.
Perhaps I'll finish it one day. I do think Mr. Helprin is an excellent writer and a visionary who has much depth.
This is NOT a good read for the airport gate, a waiting room, or your office lunchroom.

This book needs and deserves a quiet and comfortable place and a lot of time.

You’re going to want to put on a pot of tea, put your phone on Do Not Disturb, and get cozy.

It’s going to be worth every second.
Helprin is in love with language and 800 pages allows him ample opportunity to gloriously stun the reader with imagery, humor, magical realism/fantasy, allegory, mythology, and love. What is magical in the world he creates seems worth imagining. It seemed that "if only" it were possible -- if good and evil were in perfect balance and justice prevailed, then all things (motors, architecture, bridges, buildings) and all people (old, young, beautiful, ugly, rich and poor, clever and talented and not) would find love. Love, here, being the appreciation of individual talents-of individuality itself. Certainly there were sections I found more tedious than others; but Helprin truly is in love with words and images and with cities and the mechanics of things-- the engineering. This book is a love letter-- to improbable love, to fated love, to family, and especially to New York- which is built, rebuilt, and will forever be rebuilt as a city striving for justice in a golden light. Written in 1983, parts are eerily prescient and I thought often of current politics and the destruction of the Twin Towers. I will never look at ice in the same way. The movie trailers make this seem like "just a time-travel love story" and it's so much more! Yes, it is challenging reading but it is also amazing reading. I think it might be a "love it or hate it" book. (Mostly) I loved it.
I had been planning on reading "Winter's Tale" for several years after hearing some friends rave about Helprin's writing. The novel is divided into four sections. The first section of the book (the romance between Beverly and Peter Lake) bore out the praise - it was beautifully written, very imaginative and affecting. The second section tells of the arrival in New York of several characters who will be important in the rest of the novel. It was OK.

The third section is bad and the fourth section - 250 pages of rambling and incoherent hyperbolic verbal diarrhea - is a disaster. Helprin seems to have completely lost self-control as work on this novel progressed. The novel descends into a hectic and pointless series of grandiloquently-described episodes in which telling a story has been entirely subsumed in verbiage.

My recommendation is that you read the first section (about 200 pages) and just put the book down. You will have had a rewarding read and sampled Helprin's often beautiful writing. Oh, this should have been such a better book than it was.