{"id":2599,"date":"2020-07-30T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:07:38","slug":"new-york-the-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"New York: The Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Rutherfurd, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Mark Bramhall, Random House Audio<\/p>\n<p>This book is a long one (30 CD&#8217;s of audiobook) that traces the history of New York from it&#8217;s founding until 2009 through one family and its descendants.&nbsp; It&#8217; very similar to the historical novels of Ken Follett but I think Rutherfurd does a better job of developing his characters.&nbsp; Follett&#8217;s tend to be stereotypes, either good or bad individuals, and don&#8217;t seem to change over time. Some of Rutherfurd&#8217;s characters, although often prejudiced and flawed, seem to change over time to be better individuals as they age.<\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten how many crises and riots (Civil War draft riot, 1965, 1977) that New York had endured.&nbsp; Since the novel ended in 2009, it had not yet experienced the corona virus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter riots and looting of 2020.&nbsp; Perhaps Rutherfurd will have to write another epilogue for another edition to include the latest?<\/p>\n<p>While I enjoyed listening to the book, and I think that Mark Bramhall did an excellent job of narrating, I was glad when I had finished.&nbsp; The book at times seems never ending, although as I mentioned in the last paragraph, history just keeps rolling along.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3.5 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Rutherfurd, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Mark Bramhall, Random House Audio This book is a long one (30 CD&#8217;s of audiobook) that traces the history of New York from it&#8217;s founding until 2009 through one family and its descendants.&nbsp; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2599\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}