Bibliograph

City on fire, a novel by Garth Risk Hallberg

Type

Label

City on fire, a novel by Garth Risk Hallberg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

980L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

City on fire

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

904867037

Responsibility statement

a novel by Garth Risk Hallberg

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 7.0, 57, 57, 177755

Summary

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 and 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 open up the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the infamous blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever

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