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Garth Risk Hallberg - City on Fire (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The New York Times Bestseller.
Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976.
Nine lives are about to be changed forever.
Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York's greatest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbour - 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.
Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out . . . each of these lives is 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.
Details
- Format : Very Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Modern Classics
- Published : 2015 (This Edition 2016 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9780099597476
- SKU : B003041
- PPC : SP700gm
- RRP : £10.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Extraordinary . . . dazzling . . . a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970's New York" - Observer.
"Staggering . . . gloriously ambitious" - Independent on Sunday.
"A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power - a novel that attests to its young author's boundless and unflagging talents" - New York Times.
"Exciting, imaginative and perfectly paced" - Daily Telegraph.
"Dickensian, massively entertaining, as close to a great American novel as this century has produced" - Stephen King.
"You're soon zipping through Hallberg's vividly realised New York like a child discovering Hogwarts for the first time" - The Times.
"This book felt to me like a DVD boxset, in that each chapter was so short that I'd find myself reading just one more, just one more, and then find myself still reading an hour later. I love this book: this is definitely for me the best book we've done on the Book Club this year." - Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club.
The Author
Garth Risk Hallberg's first novel, City on Fire, was an international bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent, and Vogue, among others. His illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family was nominated for a Believer Book Award and his short fiction and essays have been published in the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review. He is a Granta Best Young American Novelist. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children and is at work on a new novel.