City On Fire

Author: Garth Risk Hallberg

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  • : $37.00 NZD
  • : 9780224101714
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : July 2015
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : November 2015
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Description

New York. 1977. Be There When It Explodes. It's New Year's Eve, 1976, and New York is a city on the verge. As midnight approaches, a blizzard sets in - and an unmistakable sound rings out across Central Park. Gunshots. Two of them. The search for the shooter will bring together a rich cast of New Yorkers. From the reluctant heirs to one of New York's greatest fortunes, to a couple of Long Island kids drawn to the nascent punk scene downtown. From the newly arrived and enchanted, to those so sick of the city they want to burn it to the ground. All these lives are connected to one another - and to the life that still clings to that body in the park. Whether they know it or not, they are bound up in the same story - a story where history and revolution, love and art, crime and conspiracy are all packed into a single shell, ready to explode. Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out in New York City.

Promotion info

Among the most eagerly anticipated and addictive novels of recent years - 'Can you afford not to read this book?' (Guardian)

Awards

Long-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2016.

Author description

Garth Risk Hallberg's stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, New York magazine, Slate, Los Angeles Times, and Best New American Voices 2008. His illustrated novella, A Field Guide to the North American Family, was nominated for the Believer Book Award. He is 35 years old, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.