This passion is reflected in his book on Mexican painter Diego Rivera, but New York is his town. It’s where he went to university on the GI Bill and studied to be an artist.
If New York City is Hamill’s first love, Mexico is definitely his second. There is also a distinct Mexican influence. Hamill’s apartment, where we meet on the day after Thanksgiving, is a spacious loft filled with artwork and books that reflect his interests, and those of his wife, Japanese journalist Fukiko Aoki. (On the day of our interview Hamill had yet to see Gangs of New York which is also set in the Five Points - see Editorial). It is both an unforgettable drama and a timeless triumph of storytelling.Pete Hamill, not unlike Cormac, the hero of his novel Forever, lives in the Five Points area of downtown Manhattan where the streets teem with immigrants just as they did back in the founding days of the city when Hamill’s hero emigrates from Northern Ireland. And so he seeks the one who can change his fate, the mysterious dark lady who alone can free him from the blessing and the curse of his long life.ĭrawing on Pete Hamill's bone-deep knowledge of New York City, Forever is his long-awaited masterpiece, a Shakespearean evocation of the mysteries of time and death, sex and love, character and place. As he searches out these blood enemies, he must watch everyone he touches slip away. Through it all, Cormac must fight a force of evil that returns relentlessly in the scions of a single family whose path first crossed his in Ireland. In return for aiding an African shaman who was brought to America in chains, Cormac is given an otherworldly gift: He will live forever - as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.Ĭormac comes to know all the buried secrets of Manhattan - 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.
His quest brings him to the settlement of New York, seething with tensions between English and Irish, whites and blacks, British and 'Americans,' where he is swept up in a tide of conspiracy and violence. From the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains.forever.įrom the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors.
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