In Sunlight and in Shadow

Name: In Sunlight and in Shadow
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Helprin
ISBN: 9781455165735

Author: Mark Helprin

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 23 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 10/02/2012

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Mark Helprins enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all? New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls for him instantly but too late to prevent her engagement to a much older man. Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in postwar Americas Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherines choice of Harry over her longtime fianc endangers Harrys livelihoodand eventually threatens his life. Entrancing in its lyricism,In Sunlight and in Shadowso powerfully draws you into New York at the dawn of the modern age that, as in a vivid dream, you will not want to leave.

About Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin was educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford and served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner’s Fire, Winter’s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War. He lives in Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on March 30, 2013

I spent five weeks with In Sunlight and In Shadow. Five monogamous weeks, which is quite a committed literary relationship for this fast-in, fast-out reader. Yes, life circumstances wore me out and distracted me, so that some days the amount of pages read would be imperceptible as measured on a stan......more

Goodreads review by Hayley on March 08, 2013

I'm unsure of how to write a review for In Sunlight and in Shadow since it is, for lack of a better testimony, the book I've been searching for. Without question, it is now my favorite book and I have no doubt it will continue to be no matter how many more novels I read in my lifetime. It is more be......more

Goodreads review by Trish on September 20, 2014

The first time I sunk into one of Mark Helprin’s huge, atmospheric novels I wondered how it was this man was not better known. But he is well known as a maker of epics, I just didn’t know it then. That first brush with Helprin was A Soldier of the Great War which so enraptured me I thought I’d never......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 09, 2013

I love Mark Helprin. "Winter's Tale" is probably my favorite book of all time - at least in the top 5 - and I love "Memoirs of an Ant Proof Case." If you haven't read Mark Helprin, please pick up one of those books. Do not pick up this one as your first experience with him, since it may be your last......more