HELPRIN, Mark

HELPRIN, Mark
(1947-)
   US writer who served in the British Merchant Navy and the Israeli armed forces, experiences transmuted in A Dove of the East and Other Stories (coll 1975), which contains some fantasies. He is best known for his only genre work, Winter's Tale (1983), an epic fable set in an imaginary New York. The novel attempts to be a fantastic history of the city in the 20th century, celebrating the forces which gave birth to it, and catapulting it towards an ambiguously redemptive apocalypse at the end of the century. MH employs sf images and ideas (such as extraordinary MACHINES and TIME TRAVEL), but at heart the book remains a fairytale,concerned more with MAGIC than with science.
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   Other works: Swan Lake (1989 chap), fantasy based on the ballet.

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