His love, his drive for revenge and his very desire to exist are fatefully challenged on the eve and the day of September 11. In that year he warily falls in love with Delfina, a streetwise Dominican ("That was the curse attached to the gift: You buried everyone you loved"), and comes into contact with a descendant of the Earl of Warren, the newspaper publisher Willie Warren. What follows is a portrait of the "city of memory of which Cormac was the only citizen." Cormac fights in the American Revolution, sups with Boss Tweed (in a very sympathetic portrait) and lives into the New York of 2001. His recovery takes a miraculous turn when Kongo's dead priestess, Tomora, appears and grants Cormac eternal life and youth-so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan, thus the "Forever" of the title. Cormac saves Kongo from death, but is shot in the process. After the rising is quelled, mobs take to the streets and Kongo is seized.
On board ship, Cormac befriends African slave Kongo, and once in New York, the two join a rebellion against the British. Seeking to avenge the murder of his father by the Earl of Warren, he follows the trail of the earl to New York City.
The year is 1741 and this is the story of Cormac O'Connor-"Irish, and a Jew"-who grows up in Ireland under English Protestant rule and is secretly schooled in Gaelic religion, myth and language. OL11335973W Page_number_confidence 96.52 Pages 634 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210106103205 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 407 Scandate 20210104000148 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316726368 Tts_version 4.For those interested in details, here's a synopsis courtesy of Publishers Weekly (via Amazon): Urn:lcp:forevernovel0000hami:epub:4d62efbc-d041-484d-bdf4-eb3d33cae264 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier forevernovel0000hami Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1vf6s18d Invoice 2089 Isbn 0316341118Ġ316735698 Lccn 2002114241 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9746 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000178 Openlibrary_edition
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