New York

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Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. He tells this irresistible story through the interwoven tales of families rich and poor, black and white, native-born and immigrant - a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall, fall and rise with the city's fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see the Revolutionary War, the convulsions of the Civil War, the near-demise of the city in the 1970s, through to the attacks on the World Trade Center, etched forever as 9/11. The story of how in four centuries New York became the world's envy!

From the Publisher

A tale set against a backdrop of New York City's history from its founding through the September 11 attacks traces the experiences of characters from all walks of life who witness such periods as the Revolutionary War, the city's emergence as a financial giant and the Gilded Age.

From the Publisher

A tale set against a backdrop of New York City's history from its founding through the September 11 attacks traces the experiences of characters from all walks of life who witness such periods as the Revolutionary War, the city's emergence as a financial giant, and the Gilded Age.

Review

Brigitte Weeks - Washington Post
"Readers who pick up NEW YORK should be warned not to turn the pages asking, ‘Is it true?'....[A]nalyzing the veracity of every incident will spoil the fun, and what makes this novel so entertaining is the riotous, multilayered portrait of a whole metropolis. Rutherfurd offers the reader a chance to watch a rural outcrop grow into one of the world's greatest cities in a mere 350 years. He delivers magnificently on the challenge; it is hard to imagine any other writer combining such astonishing depth of research with the imagination and ingenuity to hold it all together."

More about the book

Epic historical writer Edward Rutherfurd concluded his two-novel Dublin Saga in 2006, and now turns towards America's greatest city for another sprawling yarn that spans generations and paints a grand and vivid portrait of a particular place throughout history. Rutherfurd takes several quintessential American families--Dutch, Italian, Irish, Jewish, and African-American--and spins out their family histories, adventures, trials, and tribulations from the times of the first colonies in "New Amsterdam" to the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Synopses

A tale set against a backdrop of New York City's history from its founding through the September 11 attacks traces the experiences of characters who witness such periods as the Revolutionary War, the city's emergence as a financial giant, and the Gilded Age.