Forever Audiobook (Free)
- Stevie Ray Dallimore
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2003-01-01
Summary:
From 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.
From your shores of Ireland, Cormac O’Connor sets from a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His mission brings him to the negotiation of New York, seething with tensions between English and Irish, whites and blacks, United kingdom and ‘Americans,’ where he is swept up inside a about Forever tide of conspiracy and assault. In substitution for assisting an African shaman who was taken to America in stores, Cormac is given an otherworldly gift: He’ll live permanently — so long as he under no circumstances leaves the isle of Manhattan.
Cormac comes to know all of the buried secrets of Manhattan — just how it has been shaped by greed, competition, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous individual energies, and above all, by hope.
Through it all, Cormac must fight a force of bad that profits relentlessly in the scions of a single family whose path 1st crossed his in Ireland. As he queries out these bloodstream enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away. And so he seeks the one who can transform his destiny, the strange dark female who by itself can free of charge him from your blessing as well as the curse of his long life.
Sketching on Pete Hamill’s bone-deep knowledge of NEW YORK, Forever is normally his long-awaited masterpiece, a Shakespearean evocation of the mysteries of time and death, having sex and love, character and place. It really is both an unforgettable crisis and a timeless triumph of storytelling.