Forever is fueled by the cruel dictates of history - corruption, exploitation, murder - but it wholeheartedly celebrates human goodness at every turn. They gathered in secret, deep in the dripping glens, Chanting their prayers before a lichened rock. We took their temples from them and forbade them, for many years, to worship their strange idols. '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 Forever by Pete Hamill ONE IRELAND And what a people loves it will defend.

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 30, 2002 Journalist and author Hamill (the novel Loving Women, 1989 Why Sinatra Matters, 1998, etc. 'A swashbuckling, ribald tale told with flair and, sometimes, unbridled emotion. FOREVER by Pete Hamill RELEASE DATE: Dec. Forever is old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop.'- Washington Post Book World And so he seeks the mysterious dark lady who alone can free him from the blessing and the curse of his long life.'Hugely readable. As he searches out these blood enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away. It is a family whose path first crossed his in Ireland and whose persistence puts at risk all his hopes for fulfilling his destiny. Through it all, Cormac must fight, generation after generation, a force of evil that returns relentlessly in the scions of a single family. 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.Ī writer, a painter, and a man of sensual appetites, Cormac takes part in the dramas of his times through fat years and lean. 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.

* A magical, epic tale tracing New York's dramatic history through the eyes of an extraordinary man blessed - and cursed - with immortalityįrom the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honour the code of his ancestors.

Forever by pete hamill