New York The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

eBook - 2009

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York PostEdward 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...

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Published
Random House Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Edward Rutherfurd
Online Access
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size4 GB
ISBN9780385530231
Release Date11/10/2009
Kindle Book
ASINB002PMVY3I
Release Date11/10/2009
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780385530231
Release Date11/10/2009