![]() ![]() ![]() He pursues her, and in time he wins her over, only to find that Catherine harbors many secrets-and that her family harbors more than a few hidden prejudices and is not at all happy when Harry comes a-courting in the place of Catherine’s longtime beau. But that is far from his mind when he lays eyes on Catherine Thomas Hale on a New York ferry and is stopped in his tracks. Harry Copeland is a sturdy-looking man, so much so that a wise aunt likens him to a young Clark Gable, to which he replies, “For Chrissakes, Elaine, when he was young, without the mustache, Clark Gable looked like a mouse.” There’s nothing mousy about Harry, though he does share Gable’s burden of tragedy. ![]() Elegant, elegiac novel of life in postwar America, at once realistic and aspirational, by the ever-accomplished Helprin ( A Soldier of the Great War, 1991, etc.). ![]()
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