by Mark Helprin · Harcourt Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780156762403
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«Refiner's Fire» is the literary fiction novel by Mark Helprin, published by Harcourt Publishers Ltd in paperback (373 pages, in English).
The novel follows Marshall Pearl, an orphan born in 1947 on an immigrant ship off Palestine and raised in the United States. Mortally wounded at the start, he recalls his life: childhood in the Hudson Valley, Harvard, travels through Jamaica, the Great Plains and the Alps, and his return to Israel to fight in the Yom Kippur War.
The full title is «Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling». The work was originally published in 1977; this is the 1st Harvest/HBJ edition.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, interested in life odysseys set in Israel and the Yom Kippur War.
Mark Helprin is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".
