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2020-03-01 10:03 am

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Winter's Tale

3/5. Um, I don't know? A long magical realist fantasy about New York at opposite ends of the twentieth century, including thieves and newspaper wars and mayoral races and family saga and a magic white horse.

This book contains a plan to build what is essentially a rainbow bridge to nowhere, and I can think of no better way to describe this reading experience. It is playful and bizarre and elaborate and silly, and it basically goes nowhere. I'm glad I read it? I think? Maybe? It's certainly magical on the sentence-by-sentence, page-by-page scale. In the broader scale, boy I just don't know.