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Simon & Schuster Audio, January 2003
Abridged Audio Download
ISBN-10: 0743561309
ISBN-13: 9780743561303
Description
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...forever.
From 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. 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. In return for aiding an African shaman who was brought to America in chains, Cormac is given an otherworldly gift: He will live forever -- as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.
Cormac comes to know all the buried secrets of Manhattan -- the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and above all, by hope.
Through it all, Cormac must fight a force of evil that returns relentlessly in the scions of a single family whose path first crossed his in Ireland. As he searches out these blood enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away. 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.
Drawing on Pete Hamill's bone-deep knowledge of New York City, Forever is his long-awaited masterpiece, a Shakespearean evocation of the mysteries of time and death, sex and love, character and place. It is both an unforgettable drama and a timeless triumph of storytelling.
New York Times, May 23, 2009
...was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 2008; he was also included alongside Hitler and Stalin in Pete Hamill and Jack Newfields triumvirate of evil. Yet for a man still capable of evoking such passions even 30 years after his death, OMalley ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 17, 2009
...decision (the elder Oâ??Malley passed away in 1979). Heâ??ll accompany Dâ??Antonio at the launch of the new book, Forever Blue, at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Saturday, March 21. The book argues that for â??an unprecedented 10 ...
New York Daily News, January 20, 2009
...a friend to Norman Mailer, who was once brave enough to get into the ring with him, and Pete Hamill. He once said that Pete had given him his first book and how he now owned more than 800 of them, and was confident that 'Pete's responsible ...
