![]() He treats them like the African slaves in whom he traffics: Both peoples are sources of profit and objects of cruelty. ![]() This English earl has only contempt for the Irish. In Belfast, young Cormac Samuel O'Connor, born in 1723, witnesses the deaths of his mother, run over by the carriage of the Earl of Warren, and his father, shot by one of the earl's henchmen. No metafictions or hypertexts, please Forever is old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop. Hamill's long history as a New York journalist, his knowledgeable love for the city and his writerly exuberance explode here into a New York fantasy: big, extravagant, untrammeled and as hugely readable as it must have been hugely entertaining to write. This is the premise of Pete Hamill's ninth novel, Forever, and it's hard to think of any other writer who could pull it off as winningly as he does. ![]() Of course you'd want to spend your tireless centuries in New York. ![]() You'd want to be living in a place of perpetual opportunity and regeneration, large and containing multitudes, incomparable and inexhaustible. ![]() Just imagine that you could live for hundreds of years, ever healthy and energetic, to watch history and your family's destiny unfold. Just suppose that summer's lease didn't have all too short a date. By Reviewed Frances Taliaferro January 19, 2003 ![]()
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