num_pages: 196
description: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and nominee for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Book Award, these ten stories and the celebrated title novella are “beyond compare . . . [Helprin’s] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ).
language: English
title: Ellis Island & Other Stories
titlecomplete: Ellis Island & Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Anthologies, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Short Stories, Jewish, American Fiction
ratings_count: 907
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Jewish Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company