num_pages: 900
description: A New York Times Bestseller Departing the shores of Ireland, a young man named Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His quest brings him to the settlement of New York, seething with tensions between English and Irish, whites and blacks, British and "Americans." So unfolds the story of the intertwined lives of a man and a city, the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and above all, by hope.
language: English
title: Forever
titlecomplete: Forever
genres: Magical Realism, New York, Historical, Ireland, Fantasy, Time Travel, Adult Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 12723
publisher: Thorndike Press