Description

This is actually the wonderful, epic story of Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in Nyc from Ireland in 1741 and stays, well, permanently. For Cormac hasbeen granted the gift of immortality, but only to the condition he never abandon the island of Manhattan. Through Cormac's eyes, we view the town change from the settlement around the suggestion of an untamed wilderness towards the intimate, gaslit globe of Edith Wharton's period, and lastly towards the pulsing, flourishing town of present. But this really is also Cormac's tale, as he explores the secrets of immortality and time, death and love, sex and loss.