Ellis Island & Other Stories

"While Mr. Helprin's settings are meticulously tended for verisimilitude, they remain on a peculiarly separate plane from his actors. Almost none of his credible men and women respond to place with the intimate, even erotic, intensity that has come to be usual in the American story....The story I am likely to read again is 'North Light,' a brief and frankly autobiographical recollection of battle nerves among Israeli soldiers....More than any of his adventurous experiments, it promises that Mr. Helprin has stocks of power he may yet switch through the old numb forms.Helprin, Mark is the author of 'Ellis Island & Other Stories' with ISBN 9780156283151 and ISBN 0156283158.