City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan

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An historical novel about brother & sister medical practitioners, a barber surgeon and apothecary, who land in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1661, into whose unfolding lives lust, betrayal, and murder will rear an ugly legacy, making them deadly enemies, and burdening their descendants. 591p.

From the Publisher

An epic novel of Manhattan's first century follows two families--one Dutch, the other British--from the earliest days of the settlement to the Revolutionary War. A first novel.

Review

Kirkus
"Ambitious historical novel....freighted with so much fact and family melodrama it almost sinks under its own eight....But early medicine and city history undeniably make for an interesting read."

More about the book

Two families in New York--the Turners and the DeVreys--have inherited an ancient feud that began in 1661, when their ancestors--a surgeon and an apothecary--arrived in the New World. Following the two clans through the years, CITY OF DREAMS tells the story of New York, and particularly its medical history, through the eyes of a colorful cast of characters.