This post will be full of SPOILERS, so please stop here if you’d like to read the book. I’m teaching a fiction course this semester and to make life easy on my first leap into the forays of academia, I’m having my students read a few books I already know. This has proven to be both a good and bad idea (for me, not my students). On the good, revisiting “Forever” on an academic level has brought out so much of Hamill’s craft that I […]
The Longest Life
My second five-star book of the year! “Forever” follows Cormac O’Conner, an Irishman from the 1730s, who becomes gifted with long life through a series of spectacular and semi-magical events after he immigrates to New York. There’s one catch to his near-immortality, though: he can never leave Manhattan Isle. He becomes penned into the island’s boundaries where he watches the dank little Hudson River town turn into the roiling metropolis of the modern era. He lives through British soldiers fighting Washington’s troops in the forests around […]