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Title: None Like Him
Review: Helprin is completely unique in contemporary literature. The thought that this was his first novel is staggering. While Winter's Tale is simply the best book I have ever read, this is certainly moving and extraordinary in every sense. Helprin's use of language has no equal among authors in English, and his creativity and flights of imagination leave the open-minded reader drained yet invigorated.Helprin is clearly a victim of the thought police gangsters of the left -- there has not been a novelist so deserving of a Nobel Prize in my lifetime. But, then, any writer who can debunk feminism, evoke pride in America, and express love and support for Israel in prose to make the angels know inadequacy should expect at best indifference and at worst ignorance from our intelligensia.Refiner's Fire may not be Helprin's best, but Babe Ruth only hit 60 once!
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