{"product_id":"0385664273-new_york_the_novel","title":"New York: The Novel","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, \u003cb\u003eNew York\u003c\/b\u003e gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of America's history.\u003cbr\u003eA blockbuster masterpiece that combines breath-taking scope with narrative immediacy, this grand historical epic traces the history of New York through the lenses of several families: The Van Dycks, a wealthy Dutch trading family; the Masters, scions of an English merchant clan torn apart during the Revolution; the Hudsons, slaves who fight for their freedom over several generations; the Murphys, who escape the Famine in Ireland and land in the chaotic slum of Five Points; the Rewards, robber barons of the Gilded Age; the Florinos, an immigrant Italian clan who work building the great skyscrapers in the 1920s; and the Rabinowitzs, who flee anti-semitism in Europe and build a new life in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003eOver time, the lives of these families become intertwined through the most momentous events in the fabric of America: The founding of the colonies; the Revolution; the growth of New York as a major port and trading centre; the Civil War; the Gilded Age; the explosion of immigration and the corruption of Tammany Hall; the rise of New York as a great world city in the early 20th-century; the trials of World War II, the tumult of the 1960s; the near-demise of the city in the 1970s; its roaring rebirth in the 1990s; culminating in the World Trade Center attacks at the beginning of the new century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York\u003c\/b\u003e is the book that Rutherfurd's fans have been waiting for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Anchor Canada","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":46671231975614,"sku":"0385664273-4","price":14.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":46671232008382,"sku":"0385664273-3","price":14.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Acceptable","offer_id":46671232041150,"sku":"0385664273-5","price":14.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/8120F5eDMmL.jpg?v=1776882589","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0385664273-new_york_the_novel","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}