City on Fire

ISBN: 0804172951

Author: Hallberg, Garth Risk

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and "captures the citys dangerous, magnetic allure" (The New York Times). Streaming now on Apple TV+As close to a great American novel as this century has produced. -Stephen KingNew York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the citys great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtowns 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 Years Eve.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.