Elegy in blue

High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed eighty-two-year-old narrator of Elegy in Blue looks out across the rooftops of Brooklyn all the way to the sea. His distinguished career on Wall Street is in ruins, his mansion in Brooklyn Heights has been burned to the ground, and most of all, his...

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Main Author: Helprin, Mark (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York Abrams Press, [2026]
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Summary:High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed eighty-two-year-old narrator of Elegy in Blue looks out across the rooftops of Brooklyn all the way to the sea. His distinguished career on Wall Street is in ruins, his mansion in Brooklyn Heights has been burned to the ground, and most of all, his father, his son, and his wife - the stunningly beautiful and equally kind Clare - have been taken from him, one by one, over the decades, by war and an act of antisemitic violence. Now his "allegiance is to this ghosts." He's almost lost to memory, reflection, and a purposeful letting go of life. But when violence threatens to destroy another family, he takes drastic action in hope of restoring a portion of justice to the world. Can he fashion his life into an elegy, one that heals a broken heart and relieves the sting of death?
Physical Description:237 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781419786082
1419786083
Author Notes:Mark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Paris in the Present Tense , Winter's Tale , In Sunlight and in Shadow , A Soldier of the Great War , Freddy and Fredericka , The Pacific , Swan Lake , Ellis Island , Memoir from Antproof Case , and numerous other works.