02244cam a2200301 i 4500 295965786 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 090507s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385521383 0385521383 eng rda TxAuBib rda Rutherfurd, Edward, 1948- New York [BOOK] : the novel / Edward Ruthford. New York, NY. : Doubleday, 2009. xvi, 862 pages : maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel 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. Over 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."--Publisher. 20100107. Families Fiction. Immigrants New York (State) New York Fiction. New York (N.Y) History Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Literatura épica. Historical fiction.