Winters Tale by Mark Helprin

This book has been made into a major motion picture. It is in like new condition. Mark Helprin is the acclaimed author of In Sunlight and in Shadow, A Soldier of the Great War, and numerous more works. In this novel, the main character attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. He thinks it's empty, but the daughter is at home. This begins an affair between a middle-aged burglar and a young girl dying of consumption. Their love is so powerful he will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.