Mark Helprin (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
Besides his novels, Mark Helprin has published short fiction, including A Dove of the East and Other Stories (1975) and Ellis Island and Other Stories (1981). He has also published a children’s book, Swan Lake (1989).
Achievements
Mark Helprin’s fiction celebrates the past. Readers who are accustomed to plot-driven fiction within the conventional forms of realism find his work challenging. Helprin writes long novels (in excess of five hundred pages), and he creates worlds in which anything can and does happen. He...
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