City on Fire: A novel (Unabridged)
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3.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, its exuberant imagination.
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. A novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock 'n' roll, about how the people closest to us are sometimes the hardest to reach--about what it means to be human.
Read by Rebecca Lowman with Macleod Andrews, Alex McKenna, Paul Michael, Tristan Morris, and Bronson Pinchot.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Thanks to this staggeringly creative debut novel, author Garth Risk Hallberg has been compared to Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace. Hallberg’s writing is cutting edge, but his moving and mesmerizing portrait of New York City in the ’70s harkens back to 19th-century classics. Rebecca Lowman and a supporting cast narrate the audiobook with sensitivity and precision, immersing the listener in Hallberg’s plot twists and Dickensian cast of characters. City on Fire captures a gritty era at every level, from old money to the downtown punk scene—and every setting rings true.
