New York: The Novel, (Paperback)

from Cecrow

I've trusted this author before ("London", "The Forest") as researcher and tour-guide-through-time of the locales he writes about. New York has long interested me, so this novel was not to be resisted. Each chapter offers a vignette of New York at a different stage in its history, often advancing...

from Kasthu

New York: The Novel is an ambitious book. Covering nearly 350 years of New York, and by extension American history, this book is the story of about a half a dozen families living in the city at various points throughout its history: the Dutch van Dycks, English Masters, Irish O'Donnells, German K...

from LisaMaria_C

My first Rutherfurd work was Sarum, his novel telling the story of the history of England by focusing on five lineages down the centuries in the area around Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral. The style wasn't anything special, even clunky at times, and with almost 9,000 years of history to cover...

from KWROLSEN

This book sparked my interest because I'm from upstate New York and loved how I could imagine my ancestors living throughout the past 300 years. I liked how Rutherfurd chose to allow me to follow generations of specific families throughout the development of New York City, even referring to areas...

from BooksForDinner

It took me half a year to finish this book, though only because the episodic, time and character jumping nature of it lent itself to being read in chunks of a few chapters at a time instead of all the way through; I read many other books during the breaks while reading this. However, this was a s...