Literary Significance and Reception
Winter's Tale was published in 1983. Praised on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) as "funny, thoughtful, passionate...large-souled", it joined his previous four books as the lead review. In May 2006, the New York Times Book Review published a list of American novels, compiled from the responses to "a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'" Among the twenty-two books to have received multiple votes was Helprin's Winter's Tale.
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