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City of dreams : a novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and early Manhattan / Beverly Swerling.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.W47 C58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swerling, Beverly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Dutch Americans.
- British Americans.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- British Americans--Fiction.
- Dutch Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 591 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2001]
- Summary:
- Rich with unforgettable characters and history, intricately plotted and utterly absorbing, City of Dreams is a stirring saga of early Manhattan and the beginnings of medical science told by a master storyteller.
- In 1661, Lucas Turner and his sister, Sally, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam.
- Lucas, a barber surgeon, and Sally, an apothecary, are both gifted healers and bound to each other by blood and necessity. Yet as their new lives unfold, lust, betrayal, and murder will make them deadly enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, both make choices that will burden their descendants -- dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters -- with a legacy of secrets and retribution. That heritage sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and ultimately, patriot against Tory.
- In a city where slaves are burned alive on Wall Street, where James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams walk The Broad Way arguing America's destiny, and where one of the greatest hospitals in the world is born in former shipwrights' workshops by the East River, the fortunes of the two families are inextricably entwined. Their pride and ambition, their loves and hates, and their willingness to live by their own rules will shape the future of medicine, and the becoming of the dream that is New York.
- Contents:
- Book I The Little Musquash Path (June 1661-October 1664) 19
- Book II The Seeing Far Path (December 1711-June 1714) 113
- Book III The High Hills Path (August 1731-February 1737) 189
- Book IV The Shivering Cliffs Path (August 1737-November 1737) 277
- Book V The Claws Tear Out Eyes Path (September 1759-July 1760) 335
- Book VI The Path of Flames (July 1765-December 1765) 429
- Book VII War Path (August 1776-March 1784) 477
- Epilogue: The Path of Dreams (June 1798) 579.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- ISBN:
- 0684871726
- OCLC:
- 46462699
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