[bksvol-discuss] Currently scanning
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:19:48 -0500
Hi all,
I am currently scanning the new one by Edward Rutherfurd, "New York: The
Novel." As is usual for his books, this one has approximately a squillion
pages, so it may be a couple weeks before it is submitted! If anyone is
interested in proofing it just let me know.
From the book jacket:
Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga
that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical
research and Storytelling flair. Rutherfurd tells this tale as no other author
could—
from the 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
today at breakneck speed—four centuries brought to brilliant life in a rich and
vibrant fictional tapestry.
The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village on the forested island of
Manna hata, as Dutch traders arrive from across the ocean, seeking to carve out
their fortunes amid the splendor of the wilderness. In a global war for
imperial dominance, British settlers and merchants arrived as conquerors,
bringing aristocratic governors and then unpopular taxation, which led to
rebellion, war, and the birth of the United States. From the very beginning New
York has been central to the great events of American history.
Rutherfurd tells this irresistible Story through the interwoven tales of
families rich and poor, black and white, native-born and immigrant—a cast of
fictional and true characters whose
fates rise and fall, fall and rise with the city's fortunes. From this intimate
perspective we see 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 attacks on the World
Trade Center.
Greed and corruption have always been the companions of hopes and dreams in New
York's teeming streets. Deals were struck, politicians corrupted, men bought or
assassinated, heiresses wooed. Fortunes were amassed on Wall Street and men
became rich beyond the dreams of avarice. The heady seesaw of wealth and
poverty was seen in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash, the city's future
symbolised by its buildings that literally soared toward the sky: the Empire
State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Twin Towers.
Deborah
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