Forever

Author: Peter Hamill
Category: Fiction/Literature
ISBN: 9780316735698
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Back Bay Books

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- A nationwide bestseller in hardcover, FOREVER spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is now in its 3rd printing.- The perfect marriage of subject and writer: For millions of readers of the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, The New Yorker, and Newsday, Pete Hamill is the living embodiment of New York City.- Hamill's previous novel, Snow in August, has enjoyed huge success in paperback and has been selected by the state of Colorado, eastern Connecticut, suburban Detroit, and suburban Chicago for their community wide reading programs.- A top ten Book Sense selection.- Hardcover ISBN: 0-316-34111-8

Forever ( ISBN 9780316735698 )

Infinity Books Japan

Kawaguchi, Stm, Japan
Price : 7 USD
This novel demands that the reader immediately suspend disbelief, but if th is summons is heeded the reward will be a superior tale told by Hamill (Sno w in August; A Drinking Life) in the cadence of the master storyteller. The year is 1741 and this is the story of Cormac O'Connor- "Irish, and a Jew"-w ho grows up in Ireland under English Protestant rule and is secretly school ed in Gaelic religion, myth and language. Seeking to avenge the murder of h is father by the Earl of Warren, he follows the trail of the earl to New Yo rk City. On board ship, Cormac befriends African slave Kongo, and once in N ew York, the two join a rebellion against the British. After the rising is quelled, mobs take to the streets and Kongo is seized. Cormac saves Kongo f rom death, but is shot in the process. His recovery takes a miraculous turn when Kongo's dead priestess, Tomora, appears and grants Cormac eternal lif e and youth-so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan, thus the "F orever" of the title. What follows is a portrait of the "city of memory of which Cormac was the only citizen." Cormac fights in the American Revolutio n, sups with Boss Tweed (in a very sympathetic portrait) and lives into the New York of 2001. In that year he warily falls in love with Delfina, a str eetwise Dominican ("That was the curse attached to the gift: You buried eve ryone you loved"), and comes into contact with a descendant of the Earl of Warren, the newspaper publisher Willie Warren. His love, his drive for reve nge and his very desire to exist are fatefully challenged on the eve and th e day of September 11. This rousing, ambitious work is beautifully woven ar.

Forever ( ISBN 9780316735698 )

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Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price : 9 USD
Brand new, not a remainder, no marks. As published by Back Bay Books. Paperback edition.640 pages. Book Size: Length: 8 inches, Width 5 Height inches 0.9 Inches. Book weight: 1.2 pounds. This book will require no additional postage. Orders processed on AbeBooks Monday - Friday and ships 6 days a week. Synopsis: This widely praised bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains.forever. Through the eyes of young Cormac O'Connor--granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan--we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know all the city's buried secrets--the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope. 13 Digit ISBN number: 9780316735698. 10 Digit ISBN: 0316735698.

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