New York : the novel / Edward Rutherfurd.
"A novel that combines breath-taking scope with narrative immediacy, this grand historical epic traces the history of New York through the lenses of several families: The Van Dycks, a wealthy Dutch trading family; the Masters, scions of an English merchant clan torn apart during the Revolution; the Hudsons, slaves who fight for their freedom over several generations; the Murphys, who escape the Famine in Ireland and land in the chaotic slum of Five Points; the Rewards, robber barons of the Gilded Age; the Florinos, an immigrant Italian clan who work building the great skyscrapers in the 1920s; and the Rabinowitzs, who flee anti-semitism in Europe and build a new life in Brooklyn. Over time, the lives of these families become intertwined through the most momentous events in the fabric of America: The founding of the colonies; the Revolution; the growth of New York as a major port and trading centre; the Civil War; the Gilded Age; the explosion of immigration and the corruption of Tammany Hall; the rise of New York as a great world city in the early 20th-century; the trials of World War II, the tumult of the 1960s; the near-demise of the city in the 1970s; its roaring rebirth in the 1990s; culminating in the World Trade Center attacks at the beginning of the new century."--Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385664264
- Physical Description: xvi, 862 p. : maps ; HC
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, c2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Historical fiction of New York from the city's founding to the present day |
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Subject: | Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Families > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Epic fiction. Historical fiction. |
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