The Forest: A Novel

Authors: Rutherfurd, Edward
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC014000, FIC019000, FIC002000
ISBN: 9780804151023, Related ISBNs: 0345441788, 0345447220, 034547936X, 0375409602, 0375410074
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 784,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD’S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON.”
–The Boston Globe


“Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre woodland in southern England . . . Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families, ranging from aristocrats to peasants, who have lived in the forest for generations. . . . But the real success is in how Rutherfurd paints his picture of the wooded enclave with images of treachery and violence, as well as magic and beauty.”
–The New York Post

THE FOREST IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOSS.”
–San Jose Mercury News
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