{"product_id":"1310616","title":"Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling","description":"384 pp. \"Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to America. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War.\" ABOUT THE AUTHOR: \"Mark Helprin (born on June 28, 1947) is an award-winning American novelist, journalist, and conservative commentator. Helprin was raised on the Hudson River and in the British West Indies, and holds degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His postgraduate work was done at the University of Oxford. He served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. His first novel, published in 1977, was Refiner’s Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling. Winter’s Tale (1983) is a sometimes fantastic tale of early 20th century life in New York City. In 1991, he published A Soldier of the Great War. Memoir from Antproof Case, published in 1995, includes a long comic diatribe against the effects of coffee. Helprin came out with Freddy and Fredericka, a critically acclaimed satire, in 2005. Helprin has published three books of short stories: A Dove of the East \u0026amp; Other Stories (1975), Ellis Island \u0026amp; Other Stories (1981), and The Pacific And Other Stories (2004). He has also written three children’s books, all of which are illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg: Swan Lake, The Veil of Snows, and A City In Winter. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.\"","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12594755731526,"sku":"1310616","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/1310616","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}