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In Sunlight and in Shadow

by Mark Helprin

In Sunlight and in Shadow

Hardcover, 705 pages, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, List Price: $28 | purchase

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Book Summary

Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man.

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3 weeks on NPR Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List

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First Read: Helprin's 'In Sunlight And In Shadow'

Author Mark Helprin's latest novel is a sprawling tale of love, honor and danger in the years just after World War II. Returned soldier Harry Copeland spots a mysterious woman in white on the Staten Island Ferry. She turns out to be an heiress with Broadway dreams and a complicated past that threatens their growing love.

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