num_pages: 800
description: New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying. Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and beseiged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.[close]
language: English
title: Winter's Tale
titlecomplete: Winter's Tale
characters: Mootfowl, Issac Penn, Willa Penn, Jayga, Pearly Soames, Harry Penn, Peter Lake, Beverly Penn
genres: Romance, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Adult, Magical Realism, Historical, Steampunk, Fiction, New York
ratings_count: 28128
places: New York (State), New York City, New York
publisher: Pocket Book, 1984