{"id":1566,"date":"2012-11-19T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:56:06","slug":"in-sunlight-and-in-shadow-by-mark-helprin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1600\" title=\"In Sunlight and in Shadow\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/In-Sunlight-and-in-Shadow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In post-World War II Manhattan, veteran Harry Copeland has returned to the city he loves to begin his life after serving as an elite paratrooper behind enemy lines in Europe. The family business, manufacturing fine leather goods, awaits his return. \u00a0But on a late spring morning on the Staten Island ferry, Harry&#8217;s life is upended when he sees a \u00a0young woman across the deck. When they meet, the magic is instant, but the beautiful heiress is already engaged to be married.<\/p>\n<p>Their romance develops despite the rigid social traditions of the time, but their choices threaten not only Harry&#8217;s livelihood but their very lives. Only Harry&#8217;s wartime experiences give him the means to protect Catherine and their future.<\/p>\n<p>While this is a mesmerizing\u00a0love story, \u00a0the language is the most compelling part of the work. Mr. Helprin&#8217;s descriptions of New York and its residents are breathtakingly beautiful with evocative prose that allows the reader to experience the sounds and images of 1940s \u00a0Manhattan and the battlefields of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In post-World War II Manhattan, veteran Harry Copeland has returned to the city he loves to begin his life after serving as an elite paratrooper behind enemy lines in Europe. The family business, manufacturing fine leather goods, awaits his return. \u00a0But on a late spring morning on the Staten Island ferry, Harry&#8217;s life is upended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}