Reddit reviews Forever: A Novel

Peter Hamill's Forever is about a man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and through events becomes immortal as long as he does not leave the island of Manhattan. It's a pretty interesting concept and allows the reader to trace both the character's story, as well as the growth of NYC from the mid-18th century onwards.

Forever by Pete Hamill was pretty good.


>This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains ... forever. Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor - granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan - we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets - the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.

Forever by Pete Hamill is about a guy who is immortal as long as he doesn't leave Manhattan. Hamill is an excellent writer and I really enjoyed this book.

1. Forever -Pete Hamill
   
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3. Historical fiction
   
4. Hamill paints a picture of New York throughout 200 hundred years through the eyes of an irish man who was given the gift of immortality. He goes off to america to avenge the death of his family. It was the first book I've read by Pete Hamill, and I'm definitely checking out the rest of his works.
   
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Forever by Pete Hamill. If you happen to have seen the cutesy ABC tv adaptation, the book is much darker and beautifully written.

It might be Forever, by Pete Hamill

>In the aftermath of a slave revolt, Cormac saves the life of an African magician and is granted the power of immortality--provided he never sets foot off Manhattan Island. Not a bad deal, since it allows the ever-observant Cormac to be eyewitness to some of history's greatest spectacles--from the American Revolution to the Draft Riots, from the rise and fall of Tammany Hall to the stock market crash. Oh, and that business of September 11, 2001, too.

Forever?

https://www.amazon.com/Forever-Novel-Pete-Hamill/dp/0316735698

Forever by Peter Hammell is one of my favorites, it's slow to start but after the first chapter, I was hooked! Another is by a local Connecticut author it's based on his personal experience in Ukraine at the fall of the Soviet Union while learning about Chernobyl Journey To Chernobyl: ENCOUNTERS IN A RADIOACTIVE ZONE by Glenn Cheney, the Amazon reviews for both a mixed, but I loved them.

I really enjoyed this one. http://www.amazon.com/Forever-A-Novel-Pete-Hamill/dp/0316735698

"The magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains ... forever"