Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

Published in 1983, this is a fantasy/alternate history novel taking place around two turns of centuries, 1900s and 2000s. It’s got master burglers, flying horses, a mystical small town, and New York City.

There’s a theme that I can’t get behind (that reason needs the mystical to be in balance) but otherwise it’s a poetically written book that I enjoyed more for the parts than the whole. There’s a comical sequence about a hobo who does absolutely everything wrong that I quite enjoyed, a dialog in mechanical technobabble that was artfully written and the individual character’s stories were engaging overall.

It’s a good read that I have jaysaint to thank for, many years after the fact.