The Resource City on fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg
City on fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg
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Resource Information
The item City on fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 903 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385353779
- Label
- City on fire
- Title
- City on fire
- Statement of responsibility
- by Garth Risk Hallberg
- Subject
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- trueTeenagers
- trueBetrayal
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueDetectives
- Forgiveness -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueHeirs and heiresses
- Historical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- truePower failures
- truePunk culture
- Punk culture -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueShooting
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2015.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2015.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2015.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2015.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10405224
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hallberg, Garth Risk
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3608.A54827
- LC item number
- C57 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Man-woman relationships
- Betrayal
- Forgiveness
- New York (N.Y.)
- Nineteen seventies
- Punk culture
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- City on fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 903 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385353779
- Lccn
- 2014041963
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 896806743
- (OCoLC)896806743
- Label
- City on fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 903 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385353779
- Lccn
- 2014041963
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 896806743
- (OCoLC)896806743
Subject
- trueTeenagers
- trueBetrayal
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueDetectives
- Forgiveness -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueHeirs and heiresses
- Historical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueNew York City
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- truePower failures
- truePunk culture
- Punk culture -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueShooting
Genre
Included in
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2015
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2015
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2015
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2015
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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