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Title: New York - A Novel
Author: Edward Rutherfurd
Narrator: Mark Bramhall


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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.

Editorial Review:

The Washington Post:

Readers
who pick up "New York: The Novel" should be warned not to turn the pages asking, "Is it true?" Did
Mohawk Indians really put together the steel framework for the Empire State Building back in 1929? Was there actually a
famous Civil War photographer called Theodore Keller? Yes, for the Native American steelworkers, "sitting calmly on
the girders as they were swung up to dizzying heights in the sky." No, for the photographer, although he somewhat
resembles Mathew Brady and gives Rutherfurd the opportunity to describe the Civil War with a close-up lens. But
analyzing the veracity of every incident will spoil the fun, and what makes this novel so entertaining is the riotous,
multilayered portrait of a whole metropolis. 

Rutherfurd offers the reader a chance to watch a rural outcrop
grow into one of the world's greatest cities in a mere 350 years. He delivers magnificently on the challenge; it is hard
to imagine any other writer combining such astonishing depth of research with the imagination and ingenuity to hold it
all together. Enormous Brueghellike portraits are Rutherfurd's specialty. His first novel, "Sarum," centered
on the ancient circle of Stonehenge and was a surprise bestseller in 1987. His second novel, "Russka," spanned
1,800 years from Tartars to Bolsheviks. His novels are always comfortingly long, stuffed with detail and held together
by families descending through the centuries. His basic technique is to whip together the lives of representative
fictional clans with a backdrop of facts into a smooth narrative. 

This saga begins in New Amsterdam, an
outpost of Dutch settlers, in 1664. Those first Europeans push the original Indian tribe, the Manates, off the island
inland, leaving "Manhattan," the corruption of the Indian name Manna hata, as their only legacy. "New
Amsterdam" morphs into "New York," as the Dutch in their turn are overrun by the British and the restored
monarch, Charles II, turns his transatlantic territories over to his brother, the Duke of York. The novel's founding
father is Thomas Master, the estranged son of an English family of Puritan settlers from Boston. He has an illegitimate
Native American daughter and runs his household with the help of African slaves. His slave Quash is well treated and
encapsulates the less brutal side of slavery, but Quash's son, Hudson, is rented out to a vicious sea captain. Hudson
manages to escape, and hundreds of pages later we encounter one of his descendants tending bar in Five Points, the
poverty-stricken neighborhood behind City Hall now known as the Bowery. As the Master clan grows and thrives, passing
entrepreneurial drive from generation to generation, the reader must pay attention because, with centuries to cover,
Rutherfurd must skip whole decades. In 1901 the Masters step aside for a few chapters to make room for the Caruso
family, fresh from Italy. 

Their lives bring into focus the struggles of the New York immigrant population,
expanding daily in the early years of the 20th century. They manage to get their "crazy" Uncle Luigi past the
vigilant officials on Ellis Island and settle into tenement living. Five-year-old Salvatore Caruso grows up to become a
bricklayer, working on the Empire State Building, earning a princely $15 a day. Successive generations of Masters make
good marriages, raise families and earn lots of money. They also lose it again in the 1907 and 1929 gyrations of the
stock market. Rutherfurd captures the panic and the losses in powerful scenes that uncannily mirror today's headlines.
"The market wasn't just falling, it was in headlong panic," thinks William Master, the head of the current
generation of Masters, as he watches his fortune disappear. He stands in the street and sees "a fellow come out of
the Exchange and burst into tears. An old broker he knew passed him and remarked, with a shake of the head: 'Ain't seen
anything like this since the crash of 1907.' " 

Rutherfurd does not avoid conflict and violence among
the less affluent city residents. There are the draft riots of 1863 with scenes of angry workers attacking an orphanage
for black children (sadly not fiction); a Caruso daughter works as a seamstress locked in the Triangle Shirtwaist
factory that burned down in 1911. As we move into the 21st century, the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, are anticipated and
painfully inevitable. In the summer of 2009, Gorham Masters ponders why this city means so much to him. After a stroll
through the Strawberry Fields garden in Central Park, he muses about the future and the Freedom Tower being constructed
at the site of the Sept. 11 attack. "Two words: the one an invitation, the other an ideal, an adventure, a
necessity. 'Imagine' said the garden. 'Freedom' said the tower. Imagine freedom. That was the spirit, the message of
this city he loved." Page by page, detail by detail, Rutherfurd has magically captured this spirit. His readers,
even if they have never set foot on the island of Manhattan, will understand this crowded and multicultural city better
than many who have spent their lives on Fifth Avenue, Broadway or Wall Street. 

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