Forever

Title: Forever

Author: Pete Hamill
Published: 2002
Read: End of August/early September 2005
Number of pages: 640
Fiction
Where I obtained the book: borrowed from my parents
How I discovered it: someone gave it a glowing review on a forum about books 
My grade: B

Forever is a very fascinating book about a young Irish man named Cormac O'Connor who is granted the blessing (or perhaps curse?) of being immortal as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan. When we first meet Cormac, it's 1740 when he arrives in New York as a sixteen year old and the book takes us all the way to 2001 where he witnesses the terrorist attacks. Now that's a lot of history about New York and the book can tend to get a little dry at parts, but I would definitely recommend this, especially to anyone who loves history 

Corman is sixteen when we first meet him and while he does age with time, I can't remember if he ages more slowly than everyone else or just stops aging when he reaches a certain point. It's not like 2001 comes along and he looks like a 261 year old mummy. Nobody is none the wiser that he was born in the eighteenth century. 

Quite the interesting book; check it out sometime.