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Author Hallberg, Garth Risk

Title City on fire / by Garth Risk Hallberg

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Fiction Cellar  H149922 .c c.2  AVAILABLE  
 UM Orono Stacks  PS3608.A54827 C57 2015    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr 903 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note ORO: In memory of Ulrich Wicks
Summary The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from a lushly appointed townhouse on Sutton Place to a derelict squat on East 3rd Street, this city on fire is at once recognizable and completely unexpected. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges it into darkness, each of these entangled lives will be changed, irrevocably
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Betrayal -- Fiction
Forgiveness -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Electric power failures -- Fiction
OCLC # 896806743
ISBN # 9780385353779
0385353774
9780804172950
0804172951