- Burglars, Fiction, Irish Americans, Reincarnation
Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinaire--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York City in the year 2000.
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Grave, earnest, meticulous and warm.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Mark Helprin
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 673
- Publisher
- BBC Audiobooks America, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harvest Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151972036
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“THERE was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently and was not deep, and the sky was swept with vibrant stars, except in the east, where dawn was beginning in a light blue flood.”
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