![]() Forever is fueled by the cruel dictates of history - corruption, exploitation, murder - but it wholeheartedly celebrates human goodness at every turn. ![]() "A grand, dark, swashbuckling, yet essentially simple tale about a man's lifelong journey from revenge to mercy, hate to love." Jodi Daynard, Boston Globe Cormac O'Connor plays a role in a slave revolt, the American Revolution, and the great fire of 1835.O'Connor thinks, 'No many people know anything about their own past and New Yorkers are the most amnesiac of all." Forever should change that." Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today "New York grows from a village-with wolves stalking its forests - in a town and eventually a city. ![]() At the same time it is a serious look at what makes a city more than just bricks and mortar." Tom Walker, Denver Post ![]() He is also charged with avenging a death that takes place early in the novel. Forever Hamill By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief February / March 2003 Pete Hamill, not unlike Cormac, the hero of his novel Forever, lives in the Five Points area of downtown Manhattan where the streets teem with immigrants just as they did back in the founding days of the city when Hamill’s hero emigrates from Northern Ireland. "A swashbuckling, ribald tale told with flair and, sometimes, unbridled emotion. 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. The protagonist finds himself in Manhattan before the revolutionary war and is subject to a spell (again the magic) that allows him to live forever as long as he does not leave Manhattan. ![]() Forever is old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop." Washington Post Book World ![]()
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