City on fire / Garth Risk Hallberg.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 903 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385353774
- 0804172951
- 9780385353779
- 9780804172950
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Criminal investigation -- Fiction
- Drug abuse -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Electric power failures -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Heirs -- Fiction
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- Punk culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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 sce≠ 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
We have met the enemy, and he is us -- The family business -- Scenes from private life -- The fireworkers, part 1 -- Liberty Heights -- The impossibility of death in the mind of anyone now living -- Monads -- Bridge and tunnel -- The demon brother -- "Evidence" -- Three kinds of despair -- The fireworkers, part 2 -- In the dark.
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.