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New York : the novel / Edward Rutherfurd.
Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York’s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants, the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, 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 1990s, and the attack on the World Trade Center. A stirring mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York: The Novel gloriously captures the search for freedom and opportunity at the heart of our nation’s history.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385521383
- ISBN: 0385521383
- ISBN: 9780345497420
- ISBN: 0345497422
- Physical Description: xvi, 862 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st United States ed.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Doubleday, [2009]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | New Amsterdam: 1664 -- New York -- The Boston girl: 1735 -- The Philadelphia girl: 1741 -- Montayn's tavern: 1758 -- London: 1759 -- Abigail: 1765 -- The loyalist: 1770 -- The patriot -- Vanessa -- War: March 1776 -- Fire: 1776 -- Love: July 1777 -- The capital: 1790 -- Niagara: 1825 -- Past five points: 1849 -- Crystal palace: 1853 -- Lincoln: 1860 -- The draft: 1863 -- Moonlight sonata: 1871 -- Snow: 1888 -- Old England: 1896 -- Ellis Island: 1901 -- Empire State: 1917 -- Brooklyn: 1953 -- Verrazano Narrows: 1968 -- After dark: 1977 -- Giving birth: 1987 -- Millennium -- The board game: September 8, 2001 -- Epilogue: Summer 2009. |
| Awards Note: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013), David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction (2009) |
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. City > Fiction. Merchants > Fiction. War > Fiction. Gilded Age > Fiction. Immigration > Fiction. Terrorist > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fiction. American History. Historical fiction. |
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