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New York: The Novel
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $30.00
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Description
The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families.
As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.
New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.
Edward Rutherfurd on New York
Strangely, I suspect it was Viking ancestors who drew me to New York.
For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the port of Bristol with America. In the nineteenth century they were in shipping from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and on the great rivers of Europe--the Rhine, the Danube, even the Russian River Dnieper. I myself was born beside a river--the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure, and a deep sense of homecoming.
I first considered writing New York in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.
It was kind encouragement and old-fashioned editing from William Thomas at Doubleday that finally persuaded me to try again. And soon I was hooked.
New York's gift to the storyteller is magnificent: Indian and Dutch beginnings; larger-than-life historical characters like Lord Cornbury, the transvestite British Governor, the socialite Mrs. Astor, and the titanic J.P. Morgan; huge events from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War--when New York threatened to secede from the Union--to the Crash of '29 and the tragedy of 9/11. But it's the ordinary people I discover in my research--African slaves, Irish laborers, society ladies and sweatshop workers--whose lives move me most, and who provide so many of my plots and characters.
My own personal experiences also helped. I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen. One of my closest friends since university is an Italian immigrant. Understanding the poverty and humiliations of her childhood helped me create the book's Caruso family who came through Ellis Island and lived in Little Italy.
I also love discovering how things work. It was as fascinating to study the history of Wall Street banking--and how financial crises always repeat themselves!--as it was to learn how the Empire State Building was constructed.
But above all, what I love about New York is that people have always come there in search of freedom, and usually found it. I was lucky to be born beside Sarum's Avon. But I'd like my New York children to scatter my ashes in the Hudson. --Edward Rutherfurd
(Photo © Jeanne Maseoro)
Reviews
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "Good but not great"
I am new to Rutherford and like the Michner like style. Although chllenging in a book of this scope plot and chacter development was awfully thin at points, especially after 1900. Found myself wanting the book to end. Occasional typos and historical lapses were diconcerting as they made me fear that there were more that I was not catching.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-02
Summary: "A joyful immersion into the 400 year history of New York City"
Some historical books of the history of New York are essential by tiresome. Gotham comes to mind. Others are limited in coverage but a pleasure. See, Island at the Center of the Earth. "New York: the Novel," provides the essentials and more of the events and actors through the 400 year history, but it is a page turner. It is hard to put it down.
If follows the fictional history of a family of remarkable men and women from the time of the Dutch through the World Trade Center disaster. In the course of this epoch, the members of the family interact with true historical figures who thus become alive and real.
This book is perfect for those who enjoy historical novels and particularly those who love New York.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-26
Summary: "Great History Book!"
This is a great book to get a good history of the city of New York. It is very long, but that's one of the things that made it so good! I wish they could have had a little more about things after the turn of the century (1900, that is), but then it probably would have been even longer! Very enjoyable read!
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-22
Summary: "Outstanding historical novel about New York"
I think that reading historical novels such as this one make learning very interesting. I've read many of Michener's novels and found New York to be at least as good if not better.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-15
Summary: "My first Rutherfurd"
This is my first Edward Rutherfurd and I plan to read all the others. From the very beginning I was hooked and did not want it to end. However, by the time I got to the last fourth of the book I began to be disappointed. Maybe it was because I love the earlier history but I suspect it was because characters he started just disappeared. What happened to the Hudson line? Why have that line for several generations and then nothing. It began to be the same with others. It just left a big hole in the whole story. I will read his other books but wonder if this is his pattern? So my advice is don't get to fond of anyone because they are there in one chapter and gone in the next and never to be heard of again. Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.