But Manhattan is in fact the main character and hero of this novel, and Hamill has contrived the perfect vehicle for telling the story of the first three hundred years of its own eternal life. Forever is fueled by the cruel dictates of history - corruption, exploitation, murder - but it wholeheartedly celebrates human goodness at every turn. Hamill writes Cormac brilliantly as a hero inculcated with a keen sense of decency and an instinctive distaste for injustice of all kinds. "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 "A swashbuckling, ribald tale told with flair and, sometimes, unbridled emotion. Forever is old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop."- Washington Post Book World
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