HE HAD TRIED TO EXPLAIN FOR HIS SONS THE sense of mountains so high, sharp, and bare that winds blew ice into waves and silver crowns, of air so thin and cold it tattooed the skin and lungs with the blue of heaven and the bronze of sunshining rock crevasse.
An edition of A Dove of the East
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A dove of the East
& other stories
by Mark Helprin
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Table of Contents
A Jew of Persia.
Because of the waters of the flood.
Ruin.
First Russian summer.
Katrina, Katrin'.
Shooting the bar
1904.
Lightning north of Paris.
Mountain dancing in Truchas.
Leaving the church.
Katherine comes to Yellow Sky.
Elisha Hospital.
End of the line.
The legitimacy of medium beauty.
The home front.
Willis Avenue.
Elizabeth Ridinoure.
The silver bracelet.
On "The white girl" by James Whistler.
Back Bay conservatory.
A dove of the East.
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"A Laurel book."
Victoria University Library has Northrop Frye's copy with his annotations
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HE HAD TRIED TO EXPLAIN FOR HIS SONS THE sense of mountains so high, sharp, and bare that winds blew ice into waves and silver crowns, of air so thin and cold it tattooed the skin and lungs with the blue of heaven and the bronze of sunshining rock crevasse.
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