It is both an unforgettable drama and a timeless triumph of storytelling.From the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honour the code of his ancestors. And so he seeks the one who can change his fate, the mysterious dark lady who alone can free him from the blessing and the curse of his long life.ĭrawing on Pete Hamill's bone-deep knowledge of New York Cityits history, its neighborhoods, its people, its ever-changing variety Forever is his long-awaited masterpiece, a Shakespearean evocation of the mysteries of time and death, sex and love, character and place. As he searches out these blood enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away: the men at whose side he has fought, the friends he has treasured, the women he has loved. It is a family whose path first crossed his in Ireland and whose persistence puts at risk all his hopes for fulfilling his destiny. Through it all, Cormac must fight, generation after generation, a force of evil that returns relentlessly in the scions of a single family. And he is a chronicler of Manhattan, from its great triumphs to its greatest catastrophe. He is an activist, taking up pen to bear witness to social injustice. He is a revolutionary, taking up arms in the war of independence. He is an insurrectionist, abetting a slave revolt in the early days of the colony. Through Cormac's eyes, we watch the city grow from a tiny community on the tip of an untamed wilderness to become the thriving metropolis of the present day.Ī writer, a painter, and a man of sensual appetites, Cormac takes part in the dramas of his times through fat years and lean. Cormac comes to know all the buried secrets of Manhattanthe way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and above all, by hope. So unfolds the story of the intertwined lives of a man and a city. In return for aiding an African shaman who was brought to America in chains, Cormac is given an otherworldly gift: He will live foreveras long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan. His quest brings him to the settlement of New York, seething with tensions between English and Irish, whites and blacks, British and 'Americans,' where he is swept up in a tide of conspiracy and violence. forever.ĭeparting the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors.

From the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains.

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