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City on fire [electronic resource] : A Novel. Garth Risk Hallberg.
An immersive, exuberant, boundary-vaulting novel 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...
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- ISBN: 9780385353786 (electronic bk)
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| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf, 2015. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5 KB). |
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- Baker & Taylor
The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from a lushly appointed townhouse on Sutton Place to a derelict squat on East 3rd Street, this city on fire is at once recognizable and completely unexpected. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plungesit into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably. - Baker & Taylor
A tale set against a backdrop of the infamous 1977 blackout follows the experiences of two New York heirs, their paramours, two punk-loving teens, an obsessive reporter and a detective who would learn what any of them have to do with a Central Park shooting. A first novel. - Random House, Inc.
National Best Seller 'Â 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
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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.
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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.
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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. - Random House, Inc.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and "captures the cityâs dangerous, magnetic allure" (The New York Times). ⢠Streaming now on Apple TV+
âAs close to a great American novel as this century has produced.â âStephen King
New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the cityâs great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtownâs punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighborâand the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Yearâs Eve.Â
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 ânâ roll: about what people need from each other in order to liveâand about what makes the living worth doing in the first place.