Elegy in Blue

A Novel

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winters Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, and The Oceans and the Stars returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn

High in a subsidized studio apartment, the unnamed 82-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 wifethe stunningly beautiful and equally kind Clarehave been taken from him, one by one, over the decades, by war and an act of violence.

Now, his allegiance is to his ghosts. Hes 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