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City on Fire

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A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, it is a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, and its exuberant imagination.The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are:

  • Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest 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
  • his idealistic neighbor
  • and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park. Their entangled relationships--which stretch from post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from small-town Georgia to greater L.A.--open up the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. A novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock'n'roll, about how the people closest to us are sometimes the hardest to reach--about what it means to be human

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ISBN: 9780385682756
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Author: Garth Risk Hallberg
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Format: Ebook
Primary Genre Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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