CITY ON FIRE

Hallberg, Garth Risk

ISBN 10: 0385353774 / ISBN 13: 9780385353779

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2015

About this Item

Signed special first printing of this substantial novel that paints an evocative picture of mid-70s New York via an odd shooting in Central Park part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 9.25'' x 6''. Original black boards. Original unclipped ($30.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 912 pages. With original INDIESPENSABLE booklet. Signed by Hallberg to title page. In original black cloth slipcase with red metallic stamping. Dust jacket with one tiny bump. Tight and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CITY ON FIRE
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385353774
• ISBN 13: 9780385353779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit

About this title

Synopsis

National Best Seller • Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Vogue, The Atlantic, Newsday

“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 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.

About the Author

GARTH RISK HALLBERG lives in New York with his wife and children. This is his first novel.