The Pacific and Other Stories
by:
Mark Helprin (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101644331 (1101644338)
Publish date: June 28th 2005
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
This is a pretty mixed bag, I must say. I couldn't finish some of the stories, but others just broke my heart they were so powerful. The determining factor - I don't really like baseball, but I love the story about baseball in this collection.Most of the stories, the best ones, deal with lost and ...
I had rather high hopes for this short story collection, The Pacific and Other Stories. Helprin’s manner is a kind of anachronistic old school seriousness leavened with mostly clean gags and jokes (though he’s not above profanity or vulgarity). Basically simple stories as simple morality tales, Good...
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