Ellis Island - Softcover

These ten stories and the title novella, Ellis Island, exhibit a tremendous range and versatility of style and technique and yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.

"It's genius . . . Ellis Island ascends to the peak of literary achievement." -- The Boston Globe

"Such an ambitious reach is almost unheard of in our short fiction." -- New York Times Book Review

"Constant brilliance . . . Rarely less than heartbreaking . . . every single story sings with purity, vibrates with light." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Stories beyond compare . . . [Helprin's] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Mark Helprin is the author of, among other titles, the New York Times best-sellers Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War.

MARK HELPRIN is the author of, among other titles, the New York Times bestsellers Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War.