City on fire : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101888780
- ISBN: 1101888784
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2015.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator not specified. |
Source of Description Note: | Title details screen (OverDrive ; viewed April 30, 2015). |
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Subject: | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Nineteen seventies -- Fiction Punk culture -- Fiction Nineteen seventies Punk culture New York (State) -- New York |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. Fiction. |
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Summary:
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.