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New York

New York

The Novel

by Edward Rutherfurd

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appears in About New York City and Fiction.

Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America?s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, nativeborn and immigrant?a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city?s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York?s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fi...

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