Hamill comes by his breathless grandeur earnestly.Ĭormac is going to New York on a revenge mission. This is not precisely evidence of a light touch, but what else do you expect a black stallion named Thunder to do? The horse, jumping through a kitsch-tinged atmosphere, lands cleanly on the far shore of Legend. It's 15 feet from the pier head, and the horse takes command: ''At the end of the pier, at the end of his frantic gallop, at the end of Ireland, Thunder leaped. ''Forever'' is a lavish block of Hollywood-worthy wish fulfillment, and its robust sentimentality can seem, at its most excessive, like something out of a children's tale.Īt one key moment, Cormac O'Connor, our Irish-born hero, races on horseback to catch his America-bound ship, only to see that he's missed the boat.
The acclaimed journalist, now publishing his ninth novel, has constructed a tabloid epic in a folkloric American style. Pete Hamill's "Forever" takes the fabulistic route. In an expansive fable, the protagonist might emerge as a Zelig figure, proudly witnessing the ascents of democracy, the Empire State Building, and Madonna. In a roaring satire, the hero would bitterly record the city's follies, his eternal misery leavened only by the bargain of his rent-controlled apartment. (Entertainment Weekly) - The premise - in the mid-1700s, a young New Yorker receives the gift of immortality on the condition that he never leave Manhattan - could go in one of two obvious directions. New book: Did the Chinese discover America?
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