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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 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.The Washington Post - Brigitte Weeks…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.
MapsNew Amsterdam: 1664 1New York 50The Boston Girl: 1735 116The Philadelphia Girl: 1741 140Montayne's Tavern: 1758 156London: 1759 169Abigail: 1765 187The Loyalist: 1770 208The Patriot 234Vanessa 239War: March 1776 251Fire: 1776 275Love: July 1777 279The Capital: 1790 343Niagara: 1825 351Past Five Points: 1849 363Crystal Palace: 1853 380Lincoln: 1860 400The Draft: 1863 410Moonlight Sonata: 1871 479Snow: 1888 496Old England: 1896 539Ellis Island: 1901 550Empire State: 1917 630Brooklyn: 1953 707Verrazano Narrows: 1968 757After Dark: 1977 769Giving Birth: 1987 792Millennium 806The Board Game: September 8, 2001 817The Towers: September 10, 2001 833Epilogue: Summer 2009 853Acknowledgments 861
