City on Fire

(Paperback)

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Among the most eagerly anticipated and addictive novels of recent years The New York Times bestseller A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 'Extraordinary...dazzling... a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York' Observer 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. 'Dazzling' Washington Post 'Heart-stopping' New York Times 'Addictive' Independent 'Extraordinary' Observer

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Extraordinarydazzling a sprawling, generous, warm-hearted epic of 1970s New York * Observer *
Staggeringgloriously ambitious * Independent on Sunday *
A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power a novel that attests to its young authors 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
Youre soon zipping through Hallbergs 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 Id 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 weve done on the Book Club this year. * Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club *
Once I started Hallberg's addictive soap opera shuttling between uptown and downtown Manhattan, I couldn't stop ... This is The Goldfinch with a safety pin through its beak. -- James Kidd * Independent *
A tour de force * Daily Mail *

Author Bio

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.