City on Fire

Hallberg, Garth Risk

ISBN 10: 0224101706 / ISBN 13: 9780224101707

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2015, first impression,,, 2015

About this Item

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 915pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0224101706.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City on Fire
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2015, first impression,,
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224101706
• ISBN 13: 9780224101707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

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Synopsis

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 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.

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.


From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

GARTH RISK HALLBERG's stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The 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.