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New York
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A novel that tells the story of New York city - from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived at breakneck speed.
Edward Rutherfurd has written a novel of the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps and the epitome of the New World - New York. Fact and fiction fuse in four centuries of history as fantasy characters blend with true heroes all interwoven with the city’s fluctuating ups and downs.
The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first carved out their hopes in the wilderness; British settlers and merchants follow and then comes slavery, Civil War, mass immigration from the old world, the building of the Statue of Liberty, the roaring twenties, the great crash, the Empire State building, the Twin Towers…
The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first carved out their hopes in the wilderness; British settlers and merchants follow and then comes slavery, Civil War, mass immigration from the old world, the building of the Statue of Liberty, the roaring twenties, the great crash, the Empire State building, the Twin Towers…
Weight | 0.703000 |
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Author | Edward Rutherfurd |
Availability | IP |
Department | Literature |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780099509387 |
Pages | 1040 |
Published | 01/07/2010 |
Publisher | Arrow |
Section | Literature |
Series | FICTION |
Size Unfolded | 13x20cm |
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