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James A. Winter
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Harry A. Winter
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A Winter Haunting
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A Winter Book
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Yvor Winters
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Europa (wargame)
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Joe Winter (redirect from J.A. Winter)
Joe Winter is a British educationist and poet who has translated poets Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das . Biography: Winter was born ...
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The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare , originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the ...
34 KB (5,198 words) - 08:12, 29 January 2014

A Winter Symphony
A Winter Symphony is a Christmas album from the English soprano singer Sarah Brightman , released in November 2008 Album information ...
9 KB (1,063 words) - 21:59, 22 November 2013

A Winter Tan
A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987 . Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder , the film stars Jackie ...
2 KB (267 words) - 20:16, 9 September 2013

A Winter Tale
A Winter Tale is a 2007 Canadian dramatic feature film, written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne Solomon , featuring Canadian actor ...
5 KB (664 words) - 15:03, 27 September 2012

Garfield: Winter's Tail
Garfield: Winter's Tail is a game based on the Jim Davis comic strip, Garfield . It was released in 1989 for Amiga , Atari ST (will not ...
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A Winter Romance
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A Doctor's Report on Dianetics (redirect from Joseph A. Winter)
The book was authored by Joseph Augustus Winter, M.D., with an introduction by Frederick Perls , M.D., Ph.D. The book was first published in ...
10 KB (1,211 words) - 21:30, 5 January 2014

James A. Winter
James Alexander Winter (1886 – June 29, 1971) was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador . Assembly as a member of the ...
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David A. Winter
David A. Winter (PhD, PEng) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo . He was a founding member of the Canadian ...
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Harry A. Winter
Harry Anderson Winter (February 3, 1889 – May 30, 1969) was a lawyer, journalist, judge and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador . ...
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Charles Winter (cricketer, born 1903)
Charles Arthur Winter (24 December 1903 – 4 March 1982) was an English cricket er who played 26 first-class matches for Somerset County ...
6 KB (682 words) - 06:49, 21 March 2013

A Winter Haunting
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons . It was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel in ...
2 KB (232 words) - 16:21, 14 March 2013

A Winter Book
A Winter Book (in the original Swedish Meddelande, lit. Message) is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1998. ...
1 KB (114 words) - 12:38, 17 March 2013

Jeffrey A. Winters
Jeffrey A. Winters is an American political scientist at Northwestern University specialising in the study of oligarchy . He has written ...
1 KB (125 words) - 04:47, 4 December 2013

How Like a Winter
How Like a Winter is a gothic doom metal band from Italy that was formed in the mid-1990s, although their first recording wasn't until ...
4 KB (492 words) - 18:07, 21 June 2013

A Winter Pilgrimage
A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus in 1900 is a non fiction book by H ...
2 KB (175 words) - 21:37, 7 January 2014

A Winter of Cyclists
A Winter of Cyclists is a 2013 documentary film by Mike Prendergast. complete a 52 day winter bicycle commuting challenge created by Scot Stucky. ...
2 KB (314 words) - 18:09, 2 February 2014

Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic . As modernist: Testament of a Stone, gives ...
9 KB (1,289 words) - 16:41, 21 November 2013

Europa (wargame)
Expansion from trilogy to Europa: A Winter War (WW or AWW), GRD 1992. Material included in Balkan Front and First to Fight, published in 1990 ...
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Joe Winter (redirect from J.A. Winter)
Joe Winter is a British educationist and poet who has translated poets Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das . Biography: Winter was born ...
5 KB (785 words) - 20:34, 24 November 2013

The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare , originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the ...
34 KB (5,198 words) - 08:12, 29 January 2014

A Winter Symphony
A Winter Symphony is a Christmas album from the English soprano singer Sarah Brightman , released in November 2008 Album information ...
9 KB (1,063 words) - 21:59, 22 November 2013

A Winter Tan
A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987 . Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder , the film stars Jackie ...
2 KB (267 words) - 20:16, 9 September 2013

A Winter Tale
A Winter Tale is a 2007 Canadian dramatic feature film, written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne Solomon , featuring Canadian actor ...
5 KB (664 words) - 15:03, 27 September 2012

Garfield: Winter's Tail
Garfield: Winter's Tail is a game based on the Jim Davis comic strip, Garfield . It was released in 1989 for Amiga , Atari ST (will not ...
4 KB (662 words) - 01:41, 9 August 2013

A Winter Romance
A Winter Romance is a Christmas album recorded by Dean Martin between July and August 1959 and released on November 16 of the same year. ...
5 KB (785 words) - 16:32, 16 January 2014

A Doctor's Report on Dianetics (redirect from Joseph A. Winter)
The book was authored by Joseph Augustus Winter, M.D., with an introduction by Frederick Perls , M.D., Ph.D. The book was first published in ...
10 KB (1,211 words) - 21:30, 5 January 2014

James A. Winter
James Alexander Winter (1886 – June 29, 1971) was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador . Assembly as a member of the ...
2 KB (208 words) - 17:02, 29 December 2011

David A. Winter
David A. Winter (PhD, PEng) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo . He was a founding member of the Canadian ...
7 KB (883 words) - 02:52, 20 March 2013

Harry A. Winter
Harry Anderson Winter (February 3, 1889 – May 30, 1969) was a lawyer, journalist, judge and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador . ...
2 KB (247 words) - 17:19, 17 November 2012

Charles Winter (cricketer, born 1903)
Charles Arthur Winter (24 December 1903 – 4 March 1982) was an English cricket er who played 26 first-class matches for Somerset County ...
6 KB (682 words) - 06:49, 21 March 2013

A Winter Haunting
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons . It was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel in ...
2 KB (232 words) - 16:21, 14 March 2013

A Winter Book
A Winter Book (in the original Swedish Meddelande, lit. Message) is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1998. ...
1 KB (114 words) - 12:38, 17 March 2013

Jeffrey A. Winters
Jeffrey A. Winters is an American political scientist at Northwestern University specialising in the study of oligarchy . He has written ...
1 KB (125 words) - 04:47, 4 December 2013

How Like a Winter
How Like a Winter is a gothic doom metal band from Italy that was formed in the mid-1990s, although their first recording wasn't until ...
4 KB (492 words) - 18:07, 21 June 2013

A Winter Pilgrimage
A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus in 1900 is a non fiction book by H ...
2 KB (175 words) - 21:37, 7 January 2014

A Winter of Cyclists
A Winter of Cyclists is a 2013 documentary film by Mike Prendergast. complete a 52 day winter bicycle commuting challenge created by Scot Stucky. ...
2 KB (314 words) - 18:09, 2 February 2014

Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic . As modernist: Testament of a Stone, gives ...
9 KB (1,289 words) - 16:41, 21 November 2013

Europa (wargame)
Expansion from trilogy to Europa: A Winter War (WW or AWW), GRD 1992. Material included in Balkan Front and First to Fight, published in 1990 ...
18 KB (2,742 words) - 00:19, 18 January 2014

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Joe Winter (redirect from J.A. Winter)
Joe Winter is a British educationist and poet who has translated poets Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das . Biography: Winter was born ...
5 KB (785 words) - 20:34, 24 November 2013

The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare , originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the ...
34 KB (5,198 words) - 08:12, 29 January 2014

A Winter Symphony
A Winter Symphony is a Christmas album from the English soprano singer Sarah Brightman , released in November 2008 Album information ...
9 KB (1,063 words) - 21:59, 22 November 2013

A Winter Tan
A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987 . Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder , the film stars Jackie ...
2 KB (267 words) - 20:16, 9 September 2013

A Winter Tale
A Winter Tale is a 2007 Canadian dramatic feature film, written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne Solomon , featuring Canadian actor ...
5 KB (664 words) - 15:03, 27 September 2012

Garfield: Winter's Tail
Garfield: Winter's Tail is a game based on the Jim Davis comic strip, Garfield . It was released in 1989 for Amiga , Atari ST (will not ...
4 KB (662 words) - 01:41, 9 August 2013

A Winter Romance
A Winter Romance is a Christmas album recorded by Dean Martin between July and August 1959 and released on November 16 of the same year. ...
5 KB (785 words) - 16:32, 16 January 2014

A Doctor's Report on Dianetics (redirect from Joseph A. Winter)
The book was authored by Joseph Augustus Winter, M.D., with an introduction by Frederick Perls , M.D., Ph.D. The book was first published in ...
10 KB (1,211 words) - 21:30, 5 January 2014

James A. Winter
James Alexander Winter (1886 – June 29, 1971) was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador . Assembly as a member of the ...
2 KB (208 words) - 17:02, 29 December 2011

David A. Winter
David A. Winter (PhD, PEng) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo . He was a founding member of the Canadian ...
7 KB (883 words) - 02:52, 20 March 2013

Harry A. Winter
Harry Anderson Winter (February 3, 1889 – May 30, 1969) was a lawyer, journalist, judge and political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador . ...
2 KB (247 words) - 17:19, 17 November 2012

Charles Winter (cricketer, born 1903)
Charles Arthur Winter (24 December 1903 – 4 March 1982) was an English cricket er who played 26 first-class matches for Somerset County ...
6 KB (682 words) - 06:49, 21 March 2013

A Winter Haunting
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons . It was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel in ...
2 KB (232 words) - 16:21, 14 March 2013

A Winter Book
A Winter Book (in the original Swedish Meddelande, lit. Message) is a book written by Finnish author Tove Jansson in 1998. ...
1 KB (114 words) - 12:38, 17 March 2013

Jeffrey A. Winters
Jeffrey A. Winters is an American political scientist at Northwestern University specialising in the study of oligarchy . He has written ...
1 KB (125 words) - 04:47, 4 December 2013

How Like a Winter
How Like a Winter is a gothic doom metal band from Italy that was formed in the mid-1990s, although their first recording wasn't until ...
4 KB (492 words) - 18:07, 21 June 2013

A Winter Pilgrimage
A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus in 1900 is a non fiction book by H ...
2 KB (175 words) - 21:37, 7 January 2014

A Winter of Cyclists
A Winter of Cyclists is a 2013 documentary film by Mike Prendergast. complete a 52 day winter bicycle commuting challenge created by Scot Stucky. ...
2 KB (314 words) - 18:09, 2 February 2014

Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic . As modernist: Testament of a Stone, gives ...
9 KB (1,289 words) - 16:41, 21 November 2013

Europa (wargame)
Expansion from trilogy to Europa: A Winter War (WW or AWW), GRD 1992. Material included in Balkan Front and First to Fight, published in 1990 ...
18 KB (2,742 words) - 00:19, 18 January 2014

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Winter's Tale (novel)
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Winter's Tale
MarkHelprin WintersTale.jpg
Recent edition cover

Author
Mark Helprin
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Literary Fiction
Published
1983 (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
672 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-297-78329-7 (hardback edition)
OCLC
11499502
Winter's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, in an industrial Edwardian era style, and markedly different from our own. It takes place mainly near the turn of the 20th century. The novel is being adapted into a feature film by Akiva Goldsman.


Contents  [hide]
1 Characters 1.1 Peter Lake
1.2 Athansor
1.3 Beverly Penn
1.4 Jackson Mead
1.5 Residents of Lake of the Coheeries
2 Literary significance and reception
3 Film adaptation
4 References
5 External links

Characters[edit]
Peter Lake[edit]
Peter Lake is the central character of Winter's Tale. A child of an immigrant couple denied admission at Ellis Island, Peter Lake is set adrift in New York Harbor in a miniature model ship called City of Justice. He is found in the reeds and adopted by the Baymen of the Bayonne Marsh, who send him off to Manhattan when he comes of age. There he first becomes a mechanic and then is forced to become a burglar in a gang called the Short Tails. He soon makes a mortal enemy of their leader, Pearly Soames, and is constantly on the run from the gang. Early one winter morning Peter is on the brink of being captured and killed by the gang when he is rescued by a mysterious white horse, who becomes his guardian.
While attempting to rob a house, Peter Lake meets and falls in love with Beverly Penn. Beverly is eccentric, free spirited, and enigmatic. This captivates Peter initially, but deeper nature is revealed with her impending fatal illness from consumption. Beverly never disappears from Peter's life, protecting him until the very end. His love for dying Beverly causes him to become obsessed with justice.
In yet another escape from Pearly's men, both Peter Lake and the white horse crash into a mysterious, recurring cloud wall, disappearing in it for decades. When Peter Lake emerges, he no longer remembers who he is and is visibly no longer of this world, seeing and hearing things that nobody else can see or hear. One night, in a dream or a vision, he is carried on a tour of all the graves of the world, observing and remembering all the dead. In the apocalyptic chaos of burning New York, he acquires astonishing powers.
Peter Lake refers to himself, earlier in his life, as "Grand Central Pete".[1] In reality, there was a well-known confidence man in the late 19th century known by this name.[2]
Athansor[edit]
Athansor, the white horse, acts as a guardian angel of Peter Lake. Able to fly and possessing extraordinary endurance, the white horse appears to be an angelic being. Before the end, Peter Lake releases him to finally let him go to heaven, as Athansor had not been able to do before because of Peter Lake.
The white horse appears on the first pages of the book, saving Peter Lake who is being pursued by the Short Tails. The name of the horse is unknown to Peter Lake, but when Peter Lake visits Bayonne Marsh, the Baymen recognise the horse as Athansor, part of their oral lore. The Baymen arrive from everywhere to view the horse, but never explain what they know about him besides the name and the fact that he comes from the left.
Athansor is separated from Peter Lake when they both crash into the cloud wall but gets reunited with him towards the end of the story. Peter Lake releases him, and Athansor heads towards the heavenly pastures. As he gallops across Manhattan, trying to lift off, the whole island shakes under his hoofbeats.
Beverly Penn[edit]
Beverly Penn is a young girl dying from consumption who meets Peter Lake when he breaks into her house. Beverly is a visionary who can feel the universe. She writes down equations that explain the universe and mean for her that the universe shouts and growls. Beverly's father says about her that she had seen the Golden Age.
Even after her death, Beverly protects Peter Lake. Pearly Soames says that he tried but could not get to Peter Lake through Beverly's protection.
Jackson Mead[edit]
A master bridge builder and an enigmatic figure, Jackson Mead constructed many fine bridges all around the country. He is a brilliant engineer and appears to have unlimited material resources for the job. He is eventually revealed to be an exile from heaven, whose purpose is to build one last bridge that will bring forth the end of the world as it is, letting him return to heaven. As Jackson Mead puts it, his purpose is "to tag this world with wider and wider rainbows, until the last is so perfect and eternal that it will catch the eye of the One who has abandoned us, and bring Him to right all the broken symmetries and make life once again a still and timeless dream. My purpose, Mr. Marratta, is to stop time, to bring back the dead. My purpose, in one word, is justice." Jackson Mead's rainbow bridge does not take, but he is not upset by the failure and disappears to bide time until his next attempt.
It is interesting that Jackson Mead's stated goal "to stop time and bring back the dead", in precisely these words, is widely associated with Peter Lake and in particular attributed to him on the back of the paperback edition.
Jackson Mead's character is partially based on Joseph Strauss, the engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. Hardesty Marratta recognizes Jackson Mead's face in the face of the monument to Joseph Strauss at the Golden Gate. The inscription on the monument refers to the bridge as the "eternal rainbow", a simile used by Jackson Mead.
However, despite being a main character in the novel, he will not make an appearance in the movie.
Residents of Lake of the Coheeries[edit]
Lake of the Coheeries is a semi-mythical lake and village, playing the role of Faerie, Elfland, or Alfheim. Lake of the Coheeries is fictional, supposedly located in upstate New York across a mountain range from the Hudson River Valley. Virginia Gamely is a resident there, living with her mother, Mrs. Gamely. Both women ultimately play roles in New York City at the end of the tale. Virginia's daughter is resurrected by Peter Lake.
The imagery associated with the Lake of the Coheeries inspired a 1985 song titled "Lake of the Coheeries," by Mark Lemaire.
Literary significance and reception[edit]
Winter's Tale was published in 1983. Praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) as "funny, thoughtful, passionate...large-souled", it joined Helprin's previous four books as the lead review.[3] In May 2006, the New York Times Book Review published a list of American novels, compiled from the responses to "a short letter [from the review] to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'" Among the twenty-two books to have received multiple votes was Helprin's Winter's Tale.[4]
Film adaptation[edit]
The film adaption was released on Valentine's Day, 2014 and starred Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Russell Crowe as Pearly Soames, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, Jennifer Connelly as Virginia Gamely, and Will Smith as Lucifer though originally credited as "Judge".
The movie began filming in New York in October 2012 [5] with a slight delay due to Hurricane Sandy.[6][7] Shooting on the film ran through early 2013 and operated on a $46 million budget, down from the original $75 million budget.[8] It is unknown when Helprin sold the movie rights, with one report of Martin Scorsese originally purchasing the rights.[citation needed]
Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay adaption for the movie and is also making this his directing debut.[9] Warner Bros. Pictures approved the picture in February 2011.[9] The cinematographer will be Caleb Deschanel; composer Hans Zimmer will score.[10]
Characters not appearing in the film include Jackson Mead, Virginia's son Mark, and both Vittorio and Hardesty Marratta.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale. p. 174.
2.Jump up ^ "Confidence Man Arrested. "Grand Central Pete" in custody at Denver", The New York Times (New York, NY) 26 (19), February 24, 1892: 5
3.Jump up ^ 'Winter's Tale' ("Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled. Rightly used, it could inspire as well as comfort us. Winter's Tale is a great gift at an hour of great need.")
4.Jump up ^ "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?". The New York Times. May 21, 2006.
5.Jump up ^ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2012/11/26/tuesday-nov-27-filming-locations-in-l-a-nyc-new-orleans-chicago-more-including-chicago-fire-treme-the-americans-mad-men-hangover-3/
6.Jump up ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/crowe_tale_of_klyn_woe_JNqQ0FTm4kxV8ijh7gGeuM
7.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4311444/news
8.Jump up ^ http://www.diligencefirst.com/
9.^ Jump up to: a b http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/akiva-goldsman-gets-green-light-on-winters-tale-at-warner-bros/
10.Jump up ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056990
Film Review by Lars Hindsley - Read Novel
External links[edit]
Winter's Tale at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Winter's Tale (novel)
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Winter's Tale
MarkHelprin WintersTale.jpg
Recent edition cover

Author
Mark Helprin
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Literary Fiction
Published
1983 (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
672 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-297-78329-7 (hardback edition)
OCLC
11499502
Winter's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, in an industrial Edwardian era style, and markedly different from our own. It takes place mainly near the turn of the 20th century. The novel is being adapted into a feature film by Akiva Goldsman.


Contents  [hide]
1 Characters 1.1 Peter Lake
1.2 Athansor
1.3 Beverly Penn
1.4 Jackson Mead
1.5 Residents of Lake of the Coheeries
2 Literary significance and reception
3 Film adaptation
4 References
5 External links

Characters[edit]
Peter Lake[edit]
Peter Lake is the central character of Winter's Tale. A child of an immigrant couple denied admission at Ellis Island, Peter Lake is set adrift in New York Harbor in a miniature model ship called City of Justice. He is found in the reeds and adopted by the Baymen of the Bayonne Marsh, who send him off to Manhattan when he comes of age. There he first becomes a mechanic and then is forced to become a burglar in a gang called the Short Tails. He soon makes a mortal enemy of their leader, Pearly Soames, and is constantly on the run from the gang. Early one winter morning Peter is on the brink of being captured and killed by the gang when he is rescued by a mysterious white horse, who becomes his guardian.
While attempting to rob a house, Peter Lake meets and falls in love with Beverly Penn. Beverly is eccentric, free spirited, and enigmatic. This captivates Peter initially, but deeper nature is revealed with her impending fatal illness from consumption. Beverly never disappears from Peter's life, protecting him until the very end. His love for dying Beverly causes him to become obsessed with justice.
In yet another escape from Pearly's men, both Peter Lake and the white horse crash into a mysterious, recurring cloud wall, disappearing in it for decades. When Peter Lake emerges, he no longer remembers who he is and is visibly no longer of this world, seeing and hearing things that nobody else can see or hear. One night, in a dream or a vision, he is carried on a tour of all the graves of the world, observing and remembering all the dead. In the apocalyptic chaos of burning New York, he acquires astonishing powers.
Peter Lake refers to himself, earlier in his life, as "Grand Central Pete".[1] In reality, there was a well-known confidence man in the late 19th century known by this name.[2]
Athansor[edit]
Athansor, the white horse, acts as a guardian angel of Peter Lake. Able to fly and possessing extraordinary endurance, the white horse appears to be an angelic being. Before the end, Peter Lake releases him to finally let him go to heaven, as Athansor had not been able to do before because of Peter Lake.
The white horse appears on the first pages of the book, saving Peter Lake who is being pursued by the Short Tails. The name of the horse is unknown to Peter Lake, but when Peter Lake visits Bayonne Marsh, the Baymen recognise the horse as Athansor, part of their oral lore. The Baymen arrive from everywhere to view the horse, but never explain what they know about him besides the name and the fact that he comes from the left.
Athansor is separated from Peter Lake when they both crash into the cloud wall but gets reunited with him towards the end of the story. Peter Lake releases him, and Athansor heads towards the heavenly pastures. As he gallops across Manhattan, trying to lift off, the whole island shakes under his hoofbeats.
Beverly Penn[edit]
Beverly Penn is a young girl dying from consumption who meets Peter Lake when he breaks into her house. Beverly is a visionary who can feel the universe. She writes down equations that explain the universe and mean for her that the universe shouts and growls. Beverly's father says about her that she had seen the Golden Age.
Even after her death, Beverly protects Peter Lake. Pearly Soames says that he tried but could not get to Peter Lake through Beverly's protection.
Jackson Mead[edit]
A master bridge builder and an enigmatic figure, Jackson Mead constructed many fine bridges all around the country. He is a brilliant engineer and appears to have unlimited material resources for the job. He is eventually revealed to be an exile from heaven, whose purpose is to build one last bridge that will bring forth the end of the world as it is, letting him return to heaven. As Jackson Mead puts it, his purpose is "to tag this world with wider and wider rainbows, until the last is so perfect and eternal that it will catch the eye of the One who has abandoned us, and bring Him to right all the broken symmetries and make life once again a still and timeless dream. My purpose, Mr. Marratta, is to stop time, to bring back the dead. My purpose, in one word, is justice." Jackson Mead's rainbow bridge does not take, but he is not upset by the failure and disappears to bide time until his next attempt.
It is interesting that Jackson Mead's stated goal "to stop time and bring back the dead", in precisely these words, is widely associated with Peter Lake and in particular attributed to him on the back of the paperback edition.
Jackson Mead's character is partially based on Joseph Strauss, the engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. Hardesty Marratta recognizes Jackson Mead's face in the face of the monument to Joseph Strauss at the Golden Gate. The inscription on the monument refers to the bridge as the "eternal rainbow", a simile used by Jackson Mead.
However, despite being a main character in the novel, he will not make an appearance in the movie.
Residents of Lake of the Coheeries[edit]
Lake of the Coheeries is a semi-mythical lake and village, playing the role of Faerie, Elfland, or Alfheim. Lake of the Coheeries is fictional, supposedly located in upstate New York across a mountain range from the Hudson River Valley. Virginia Gamely is a resident there, living with her mother, Mrs. Gamely. Both women ultimately play roles in New York City at the end of the tale. Virginia's daughter is resurrected by Peter Lake.
The imagery associated with the Lake of the Coheeries inspired a 1985 song titled "Lake of the Coheeries," by Mark Lemaire.
Literary significance and reception[edit]
Winter's Tale was published in 1983. Praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) as "funny, thoughtful, passionate...large-souled", it joined Helprin's previous four books as the lead review.[3] In May 2006, the New York Times Book Review published a list of American novels, compiled from the responses to "a short letter [from the review] to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'" Among the twenty-two books to have received multiple votes was Helprin's Winter's Tale.[4]
Film adaptation[edit]
The film adaption was released on Valentine's Day, 2014 and starred Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Russell Crowe as Pearly Soames, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, Jennifer Connelly as Virginia Gamely, and Will Smith as Lucifer though originally credited as "Judge".
The movie began filming in New York in October 2012 [5] with a slight delay due to Hurricane Sandy.[6][7] Shooting on the film ran through early 2013 and operated on a $46 million budget, down from the original $75 million budget.[8] It is unknown when Helprin sold the movie rights, with one report of Martin Scorsese originally purchasing the rights.[citation needed]
Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay adaption for the movie and is also making this his directing debut.[9] Warner Bros. Pictures approved the picture in February 2011.[9] The cinematographer will be Caleb Deschanel; composer Hans Zimmer will score.[10]
Characters not appearing in the film include Jackson Mead, Virginia's son Mark, and both Vittorio and Hardesty Marratta.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale. p. 174.
2.Jump up ^ "Confidence Man Arrested. "Grand Central Pete" in custody at Denver", The New York Times (New York, NY) 26 (19), February 24, 1892: 5
3.Jump up ^ 'Winter's Tale' ("Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled. Rightly used, it could inspire as well as comfort us. Winter's Tale is a great gift at an hour of great need.")
4.Jump up ^ "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?". The New York Times. May 21, 2006.
5.Jump up ^ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2012/11/26/tuesday-nov-27-filming-locations-in-l-a-nyc-new-orleans-chicago-more-including-chicago-fire-treme-the-americans-mad-men-hangover-3/
6.Jump up ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/crowe_tale_of_klyn_woe_JNqQ0FTm4kxV8ijh7gGeuM
7.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4311444/news
8.Jump up ^ http://www.diligencefirst.com/
9.^ Jump up to: a b http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/akiva-goldsman-gets-green-light-on-winters-tale-at-warner-bros/
10.Jump up ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056990
Film Review by Lars Hindsley - Read Novel
External links[edit]
Winter's Tale at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Winter's Tale (novel)
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Winter's Tale
MarkHelprin WintersTale.jpg
Recent edition cover

Author
Mark Helprin
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Literary Fiction
Published
1983 (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
672 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-297-78329-7 (hardback edition)
OCLC
11499502
Winter's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, in an industrial Edwardian era style, and markedly different from our own. It takes place mainly near the turn of the 20th century. The novel is being adapted into a feature film by Akiva Goldsman.


Contents  [hide]
1 Characters 1.1 Peter Lake
1.2 Athansor
1.3 Beverly Penn
1.4 Jackson Mead
1.5 Residents of Lake of the Coheeries
2 Literary significance and reception
3 Film adaptation
4 References
5 External links

Characters[edit]
Peter Lake[edit]
Peter Lake is the central character of Winter's Tale. A child of an immigrant couple denied admission at Ellis Island, Peter Lake is set adrift in New York Harbor in a miniature model ship called City of Justice. He is found in the reeds and adopted by the Baymen of the Bayonne Marsh, who send him off to Manhattan when he comes of age. There he first becomes a mechanic and then is forced to become a burglar in a gang called the Short Tails. He soon makes a mortal enemy of their leader, Pearly Soames, and is constantly on the run from the gang. Early one winter morning Peter is on the brink of being captured and killed by the gang when he is rescued by a mysterious white horse, who becomes his guardian.
While attempting to rob a house, Peter Lake meets and falls in love with Beverly Penn. Beverly is eccentric, free spirited, and enigmatic. This captivates Peter initially, but deeper nature is revealed with her impending fatal illness from consumption. Beverly never disappears from Peter's life, protecting him until the very end. His love for dying Beverly causes him to become obsessed with justice.
In yet another escape from Pearly's men, both Peter Lake and the white horse crash into a mysterious, recurring cloud wall, disappearing in it for decades. When Peter Lake emerges, he no longer remembers who he is and is visibly no longer of this world, seeing and hearing things that nobody else can see or hear. One night, in a dream or a vision, he is carried on a tour of all the graves of the world, observing and remembering all the dead. In the apocalyptic chaos of burning New York, he acquires astonishing powers.
Peter Lake refers to himself, earlier in his life, as "Grand Central Pete".[1] In reality, there was a well-known confidence man in the late 19th century known by this name.[2]
Athansor[edit]
Athansor, the white horse, acts as a guardian angel of Peter Lake. Able to fly and possessing extraordinary endurance, the white horse appears to be an angelic being. Before the end, Peter Lake releases him to finally let him go to heaven, as Athansor had not been able to do before because of Peter Lake.
The white horse appears on the first pages of the book, saving Peter Lake who is being pursued by the Short Tails. The name of the horse is unknown to Peter Lake, but when Peter Lake visits Bayonne Marsh, the Baymen recognise the horse as Athansor, part of their oral lore. The Baymen arrive from everywhere to view the horse, but never explain what they know about him besides the name and the fact that he comes from the left.
Athansor is separated from Peter Lake when they both crash into the cloud wall but gets reunited with him towards the end of the story. Peter Lake releases him, and Athansor heads towards the heavenly pastures. As he gallops across Manhattan, trying to lift off, the whole island shakes under his hoofbeats.
Beverly Penn[edit]
Beverly Penn is a young girl dying from consumption who meets Peter Lake when he breaks into her house. Beverly is a visionary who can feel the universe. She writes down equations that explain the universe and mean for her that the universe shouts and growls. Beverly's father says about her that she had seen the Golden Age.
Even after her death, Beverly protects Peter Lake. Pearly Soames says that he tried but could not get to Peter Lake through Beverly's protection.
Jackson Mead[edit]
A master bridge builder and an enigmatic figure, Jackson Mead constructed many fine bridges all around the country. He is a brilliant engineer and appears to have unlimited material resources for the job. He is eventually revealed to be an exile from heaven, whose purpose is to build one last bridge that will bring forth the end of the world as it is, letting him return to heaven. As Jackson Mead puts it, his purpose is "to tag this world with wider and wider rainbows, until the last is so perfect and eternal that it will catch the eye of the One who has abandoned us, and bring Him to right all the broken symmetries and make life once again a still and timeless dream. My purpose, Mr. Marratta, is to stop time, to bring back the dead. My purpose, in one word, is justice." Jackson Mead's rainbow bridge does not take, but he is not upset by the failure and disappears to bide time until his next attempt.
It is interesting that Jackson Mead's stated goal "to stop time and bring back the dead", in precisely these words, is widely associated with Peter Lake and in particular attributed to him on the back of the paperback edition.
Jackson Mead's character is partially based on Joseph Strauss, the engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. Hardesty Marratta recognizes Jackson Mead's face in the face of the monument to Joseph Strauss at the Golden Gate. The inscription on the monument refers to the bridge as the "eternal rainbow", a simile used by Jackson Mead.
However, despite being a main character in the novel, he will not make an appearance in the movie.
Residents of Lake of the Coheeries[edit]
Lake of the Coheeries is a semi-mythical lake and village, playing the role of Faerie, Elfland, or Alfheim. Lake of the Coheeries is fictional, supposedly located in upstate New York across a mountain range from the Hudson River Valley. Virginia Gamely is a resident there, living with her mother, Mrs. Gamely. Both women ultimately play roles in New York City at the end of the tale. Virginia's daughter is resurrected by Peter Lake.
The imagery associated with the Lake of the Coheeries inspired a 1985 song titled "Lake of the Coheeries," by Mark Lemaire.
Literary significance and reception[edit]
Winter's Tale was published in 1983. Praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) as "funny, thoughtful, passionate...large-souled", it joined Helprin's previous four books as the lead review.[3] In May 2006, the New York Times Book Review published a list of American novels, compiled from the responses to "a short letter [from the review] to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'" Among the twenty-two books to have received multiple votes was Helprin's Winter's Tale.[4]
Film adaptation[edit]
The film adaption was released on Valentine's Day, 2014 and starred Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Russell Crowe as Pearly Soames, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, Jennifer Connelly as Virginia Gamely, and Will Smith as Lucifer though originally credited as "Judge".
The movie began filming in New York in October 2012 [5] with a slight delay due to Hurricane Sandy.[6][7] Shooting on the film ran through early 2013 and operated on a $46 million budget, down from the original $75 million budget.[8] It is unknown when Helprin sold the movie rights, with one report of Martin Scorsese originally purchasing the rights.[citation needed]
Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay adaption for the movie and is also making this his directing debut.[9] Warner Bros. Pictures approved the picture in February 2011.[9] The cinematographer will be Caleb Deschanel; composer Hans Zimmer will score.[10]
Characters not appearing in the film include Jackson Mead, Virginia's son Mark, and both Vittorio and Hardesty Marratta.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale. p. 174.
2.Jump up ^ "Confidence Man Arrested. "Grand Central Pete" in custody at Denver", The New York Times (New York, NY) 26 (19), February 24, 1892: 5
3.Jump up ^ 'Winter's Tale' ("Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled. Rightly used, it could inspire as well as comfort us. Winter's Tale is a great gift at an hour of great need.")
4.Jump up ^ "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?". The New York Times. May 21, 2006.
5.Jump up ^ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2012/11/26/tuesday-nov-27-filming-locations-in-l-a-nyc-new-orleans-chicago-more-including-chicago-fire-treme-the-americans-mad-men-hangover-3/
6.Jump up ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/crowe_tale_of_klyn_woe_JNqQ0FTm4kxV8ijh7gGeuM
7.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4311444/news
8.Jump up ^ http://www.diligencefirst.com/
9.^ Jump up to: a b http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/akiva-goldsman-gets-green-light-on-winters-tale-at-warner-bros/
10.Jump up ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056990
Film Review by Lars Hindsley - Read Novel
External links[edit]
Winter's Tale at the Internet Movie Database
 


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1980s fantasy novels
American alternate history novels
Novels by Mark Helprin
American magic realism novels
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Winter's Tale (novel)
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Winter's Tale
MarkHelprin WintersTale.jpg
Recent edition cover

Author
Mark Helprin
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Literary Fiction
Published
1983 (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
672 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN
ISBN 0-297-78329-7 (hardback edition)
OCLC
11499502
Winter's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, in an industrial Edwardian era style, and markedly different from our own. It takes place mainly near the turn of the 20th century. The novel is being adapted into a feature film by Akiva Goldsman.


Contents  [hide]
1 Characters 1.1 Peter Lake
1.2 Athansor
1.3 Beverly Penn
1.4 Jackson Mead
1.5 Residents of Lake of the Coheeries
2 Literary significance and reception
3 Film adaptation
4 References
5 External links

Characters[edit]
Peter Lake[edit]
Peter Lake is the central character of Winter's Tale. A child of an immigrant couple denied admission at Ellis Island, Peter Lake is set adrift in New York Harbor in a miniature model ship called City of Justice. He is found in the reeds and adopted by the Baymen of the Bayonne Marsh, who send him off to Manhattan when he comes of age. There he first becomes a mechanic and then is forced to become a burglar in a gang called the Short Tails. He soon makes a mortal enemy of their leader, Pearly Soames, and is constantly on the run from the gang. Early one winter morning Peter is on the brink of being captured and killed by the gang when he is rescued by a mysterious white horse, who becomes his guardian.
While attempting to rob a house, Peter Lake meets and falls in love with Beverly Penn. Beverly is eccentric, free spirited, and enigmatic. This captivates Peter initially, but deeper nature is revealed with her impending fatal illness from consumption. Beverly never disappears from Peter's life, protecting him until the very end. His love for dying Beverly causes him to become obsessed with justice.
In yet another escape from Pearly's men, both Peter Lake and the white horse crash into a mysterious, recurring cloud wall, disappearing in it for decades. When Peter Lake emerges, he no longer remembers who he is and is visibly no longer of this world, seeing and hearing things that nobody else can see or hear. One night, in a dream or a vision, he is carried on a tour of all the graves of the world, observing and remembering all the dead. In the apocalyptic chaos of burning New York, he acquires astonishing powers.
Peter Lake refers to himself, earlier in his life, as "Grand Central Pete".[1] In reality, there was a well-known confidence man in the late 19th century known by this name.[2]
Athansor[edit]
Athansor, the white horse, acts as a guardian angel of Peter Lake. Able to fly and possessing extraordinary endurance, the white horse appears to be an angelic being. Before the end, Peter Lake releases him to finally let him go to heaven, as Athansor had not been able to do before because of Peter Lake.
The white horse appears on the first pages of the book, saving Peter Lake who is being pursued by the Short Tails. The name of the horse is unknown to Peter Lake, but when Peter Lake visits Bayonne Marsh, the Baymen recognise the horse as Athansor, part of their oral lore. The Baymen arrive from everywhere to view the horse, but never explain what they know about him besides the name and the fact that he comes from the left.
Athansor is separated from Peter Lake when they both crash into the cloud wall but gets reunited with him towards the end of the story. Peter Lake releases him, and Athansor heads towards the heavenly pastures. As he gallops across Manhattan, trying to lift off, the whole island shakes under his hoofbeats.
Beverly Penn[edit]
Beverly Penn is a young girl dying from consumption who meets Peter Lake when he breaks into her house. Beverly is a visionary who can feel the universe. She writes down equations that explain the universe and mean for her that the universe shouts and growls. Beverly's father says about her that she had seen the Golden Age.
Even after her death, Beverly protects Peter Lake. Pearly Soames says that he tried but could not get to Peter Lake through Beverly's protection.
Jackson Mead[edit]
A master bridge builder and an enigmatic figure, Jackson Mead constructed many fine bridges all around the country. He is a brilliant engineer and appears to have unlimited material resources for the job. He is eventually revealed to be an exile from heaven, whose purpose is to build one last bridge that will bring forth the end of the world as it is, letting him return to heaven. As Jackson Mead puts it, his purpose is "to tag this world with wider and wider rainbows, until the last is so perfect and eternal that it will catch the eye of the One who has abandoned us, and bring Him to right all the broken symmetries and make life once again a still and timeless dream. My purpose, Mr. Marratta, is to stop time, to bring back the dead. My purpose, in one word, is justice." Jackson Mead's rainbow bridge does not take, but he is not upset by the failure and disappears to bide time until his next attempt.
It is interesting that Jackson Mead's stated goal "to stop time and bring back the dead", in precisely these words, is widely associated with Peter Lake and in particular attributed to him on the back of the paperback edition.
Jackson Mead's character is partially based on Joseph Strauss, the engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. Hardesty Marratta recognizes Jackson Mead's face in the face of the monument to Joseph Strauss at the Golden Gate. The inscription on the monument refers to the bridge as the "eternal rainbow", a simile used by Jackson Mead.
However, despite being a main character in the novel, he will not make an appearance in the movie.
Residents of Lake of the Coheeries[edit]
Lake of the Coheeries is a semi-mythical lake and village, playing the role of Faerie, Elfland, or Alfheim. Lake of the Coheeries is fictional, supposedly located in upstate New York across a mountain range from the Hudson River Valley. Virginia Gamely is a resident there, living with her mother, Mrs. Gamely. Both women ultimately play roles in New York City at the end of the tale. Virginia's daughter is resurrected by Peter Lake.
The imagery associated with the Lake of the Coheeries inspired a 1985 song titled "Lake of the Coheeries," by Mark Lemaire.
Literary significance and reception[edit]
Winter's Tale was published in 1983. Praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) as "funny, thoughtful, passionate...large-souled", it joined Helprin's previous four books as the lead review.[3] In May 2006, the New York Times Book Review published a list of American novels, compiled from the responses to "a short letter [from the review] to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'" Among the twenty-two books to have received multiple votes was Helprin's Winter's Tale.[4]
Film adaptation[edit]
The film adaption was released on Valentine's Day, 2014 and starred Colin Farrell as Peter Lake, Russell Crowe as Pearly Soames, Jessica Brown Findlay as Beverly Penn, Jennifer Connelly as Virginia Gamely, and Will Smith as Lucifer though originally credited as "Judge".
The movie began filming in New York in October 2012 [5] with a slight delay due to Hurricane Sandy.[6][7] Shooting on the film ran through early 2013 and operated on a $46 million budget, down from the original $75 million budget.[8] It is unknown when Helprin sold the movie rights, with one report of Martin Scorsese originally purchasing the rights.[citation needed]
Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay adaption for the movie and is also making this his directing debut.[9] Warner Bros. Pictures approved the picture in February 2011.[9] The cinematographer will be Caleb Deschanel; composer Hans Zimmer will score.[10]
Characters not appearing in the film include Jackson Mead, Virginia's son Mark, and both Vittorio and Hardesty Marratta.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale. p. 174.
2.Jump up ^ "Confidence Man Arrested. "Grand Central Pete" in custody at Denver", The New York Times (New York, NY) 26 (19), February 24, 1892: 5
3.Jump up ^ 'Winter's Tale' ("Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled. Rightly used, it could inspire as well as comfort us. Winter's Tale is a great gift at an hour of great need.")
4.Jump up ^ "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?". The New York Times. May 21, 2006.
5.Jump up ^ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2012/11/26/tuesday-nov-27-filming-locations-in-l-a-nyc-new-orleans-chicago-more-including-chicago-fire-treme-the-americans-mad-men-hangover-3/
6.Jump up ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/crowe_tale_of_klyn_woe_JNqQ0FTm4kxV8ijh7gGeuM
7.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4311444/news
8.Jump up ^ http://www.diligencefirst.com/
9.^ Jump up to: a b http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/akiva-goldsman-gets-green-light-on-winters-tale-at-warner-bros/
10.Jump up ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056990
Film Review by Lars Hindsley - Read Novel
External links[edit]
Winter's Tale at the Internet Movie Database
 


Categories: 1983 novels
1980s fantasy novels
American alternate history novels
Novels by Mark Helprin
American magic realism novels
Novels set in New York City
American novels adapted into films






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