So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure, and a deep sense of homecoming. I myself was born beside a river-the Avon in Sarum. In the nineteenth century they were in shipping from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and on the great rivers of Europe-the Rhine, the Danube, even the Russian River Dnieper. Strangely, I suspect it was Viking ancestors who drew me to New York.įor centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the port of Bristol with America. 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.Įditorial Review Edward Rutherfurd on New York 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. Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the New York PostĮdward 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.
Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction
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