Mark Helprin
Paperback | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 3.98 | 1050 Users | 56 Reviews
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| Title | : | Refiner's Fire |
| Author | : | Mark Helprin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2005 by Mariner Books (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature. War |
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Born on an illegal immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine, Marshall Pearl is immediately orphaned and soon brought to America, where he grows up amidst fascinating and idiosyncratic privilege that is, however, not nearly as influential in regard to his formation as the pull of his origins though they are unknown to him. A cross between Fielding´s Tom Jones and the story of Moses, Refiner´s Fire is a great and colorful adventure that ends in a crucible of battle, suffering, and death, from which Marshall Pearl rises purely by the grace of God. Addressing the holy and the profane, but never heavy handedly, it is not so much a meditation on the fate of the Jews after the Holocaust, the rise of Israel, and the spirit of America, as it is an elegy and a song in which the powers of life and regeneration are shown to gorgeous effect.Declare Books Concering Refiner's Fire
| Original Title: | Refiner's Fire |
| ISBN: | 0156031078 (ISBN13: 9780156031073) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 1050 Users | 56 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books Refiner's Fire
This book is a wonderful if you don't mind your heroes being to heroic. But for an old Charles Morgan buff like me there is nothing more beautiful than perfect love, perfect courage and perfect beauty.Sweet, dark chocolate, cool red wine and stolen kisses under a waxing moon.Ultimately, one of Helprin's lesser works, but only by virtue of it being his first novel. Rumours of too many anti-feminist rants or that it's "a 'guys' book" are greatly exaggerated: it speaks truth, with the passion of an experienced heart.Read and ascend.
A great read. Helprin pulls you along with his picturesque prose and a story line of courage and individualism which is compelling and heart warming.
This is a book about people's lives, and it's one of those where saying too much risks spoiling it. There are a lot of lives, and deaths tangled together in this tale, and a lot of references to a history I know very little about. It made me wonder about a lot of things - a quality I always appreciate in a book.What I enjoyed most was the sprinkling of observation - dashes of broader philosophy, some of which I agreed with more than others, but which made me sit up, and think. I don't need to
Another Helprin book with his typical exotic flowery idiomatic writing -- certain to either please or drive nuts readers. Complex with some depth of thought and writing that I like, keeping me interested and slowing me down to enjoy more.
This is my favorite novel of all. Helprin is one of the best living American writers. His plots are transcendantly beautiful, and his phrasing is almost unbearably lovely. I wish I could live inside one of his novels.
This novel has its moments but could have benefited from a good editor who might have advised the author to delete the anti-feminist rants, anti-union rants, sophomoric philosophizing, and strained metaphors.
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