Title: Winter's tale /
Authors: Helprin, Mark.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Irish Americans Fiction; Reincarnation Fiction; Paranormal fiction.; Burglars Fiction.; Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.
Abstract: Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinare--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York City in the year 2000.
Contents: A white horse escapes -- The ferry burns in morning cold -- Pearly soames -- Peter Lake from a star -- Beverly -- A goddess in the bath -- On the marsh -- Lake of the Coheeries -- The hospital in Printing House Square -- Aceldama -- Four gates to the city -- Lake of the Coheeries -- In the drifts -- A new life -- Hell gate -- Nothing is random -- Peter Lake returns -- The sun... -- ...and the ghost -- An early summer dinner at Petipas -- The machine age -- A very short history of the clouds -- Battery bridge -- White horse and dark horse -- The white dog of Afghanistan -- Abysmillard redux -- Ex machina -- For the soldiers and sailors of Chelsea -- The city alight -- A golden age.