Availability
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PUBLISHED
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1983]
©1983
©1983
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
xii, 673 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0151972036, 9780544320420 (move tie-in ed)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Also published: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014] 748 p
"One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead."-- ǂc Excerpt of summary from book
CONTENTS
A white horse escapes --
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 --
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 --
Sun... --
...and the ghost --
An early summer dinner at Petipas --
Machine age --
A very short history of the clouds --
Battery bridge --
White horse and dark horse --
White dog of Afghanistan --
Abysmillard redux --
Ex machina --
For the soldiers and sailors of Chelsea --
City alight --
A golden age