City on Fire
By Garth Risk HallbergNational Best Seller Named a Best Book of the Year by: "New York Times," "Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, "NPR, "Vogue, The Atlantic, " "Newsday"
A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power a novel that attests to its young author s boundless and unflagging talents. " "Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times"
New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year s Eve.
The mystery, as it reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power, will open up even the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever.
"City on Fire "is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock n roll: about what people need from each other in order to live . . . and about what makes the living worth doing in the first place."
Book details
- Hardcover
- 944 pages
- English
- 0385353774
- 9780385353779
About Garth Risk Hallberg
garth risk hallberg’s stories and essays have appeared in best new american voices, the new york times magazine, the new york times book review, Read More about Garth Risk Hallberg
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