City on fire

The Resource City on fire
Label
City on fire
Statement of responsibility
Garth Risk Hallberg
Creator
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 plunges it into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably
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Award
  • Booklist Editors' Choice, 2015.
  • LibraryReads Favorites, 2015.
  • Library Journal Best Books, 2015.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2015.
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3608.A54827
LC item number
C57 2015
Literary form
fiction

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