About this product Product Identifiers Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN-10 0385521383 ISBN-13 9780385521383 eBay Product ID (ePID) 71910068 Product Key Features Book Title New York : a Novel Number of Pages 880 Pages Language English Publication Year 2009 Topic Literary, Historical Illustrator Yes Genre Fiction Author Edward Rutherford Format Hardcover Dimensions Item Height 1.8 in Item Weight 42.1 Oz Item Length 9.5 in Item Width 6.5 in Additional Product Features Intended Audience Trade LCCN 2009-026584 Reviews "Like James Michener and Leon Uris, Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within a digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events." - Booklist "History has never been so fun to read....Rutherfurd's research is exhaustive....fun....This is history, but with a very readable story line."-- USA Today, "Like James Michener and Leon Uris, Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within a digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events." -Booklist, "Like James Michener and Leon Uris, Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within a digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events." -- Booklist "History has never been so fun to read....Rutherfurd's research is exhaustive....fun....This is history, but with a very readable story line."-- USA Today, "Like James Michener and Leon Uris, Rutherfurd does a magnificent job of packaging a crackling good yarn within a digestible overview of complex historical circumstances and events." -Booklist "History has never been so fun to read....Rutherfurd's research is exhaustive....fun....This is history, but with a very readable story line."--USA Today Synopsis The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, 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 '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth. New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history., The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the attacks on the World Trade Center. LC Classification Number PR6068.U88N49 2009 Show More Show Less