In the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary guy who arrives in NEW YORK in 1740 and continues to be…forever.

Through the shores of Ireland, Cormac O’Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His goal brings him towards the settlement of NY, seething with tensions between British and Irish, whites and blacks, United kingdom and ‘People in america,’ where he’s swept up within a about Forever tide of conspiracy and violence. In substitution for assisting an African shaman who was simply taken to America in chains, Cormac is given an otherworldly present: He will live forever — as long as he under no circumstances leaves the island of Manhattan.

Cormac comes to know all of the buried secrets of Manhattan — the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, with the unleashing of enormous human energies, and most importantly, by hope.

Through it all, Cormac must combat a force of evil that profits relentlessly in the scions of a single family whose path first crossed his in Ireland. As he queries out these bloodstream enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away. Therefore he seeks the one who can transform his destiny, the strange dark lady who by itself can free him in the blessing and the curse of his long life.

Sketching on Pete Hamill’s bone-deep knowledge of NEW YORK, Forever is definitely his long-awaited masterpiece, a Shakespearean evocation from the mysteries of your time and death, having sex and love, personality and place. It really is both an unforgettable episode and a timeless triumph of storytelling.