New York

By Jerome de Groot | Published in 2009

Book review on New York by Edward Rutherford, by Jerome de Groot

Edward RutherfurdCentury 1,017pp £18.99ISBN 978 1846051951 This huge novel about New York is a kind of biography of place that is constructed using a set of emblematic families to traverse the complex chronology and geography of the city that never sleeps. New York is a predictable, if rattling good, account of the development of the city. It is innovative, emphasising the sustaining power of the metropolis within history rather than the brief flurries of activity associated with individuals. Yet there is often nothing one could call a storyline in this novel, merely fleeting moments as protagonists slip briefly in and out of a timeline.

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