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; 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--which stretch from post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from small-town Georgia to greater L.A.--open up the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 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.
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ISBN:9780385682749 (hardcover)
Physical Description:print 903 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher:[Toronto, Ontario] :Bond Street Books,[2015]
Book 1: We have met the enemy, and he is us -- Book 2: Scenes from private life -- Book 3: Liberty heights -- Book 4: Monads -- Book 5: The demon brother -- Book 6: Three kinds of despair -- Book 7: In the dark.